Research Interests
North African Literature and Film
Al-Andalus (Medieval Muslim Iberia)
Modern Spanish Literature and Film
Arabic Literature
Mediterranean Studies
Postcolonial Studies
Travel Writing
Education
Ph.D., Harvard University, 2011
B.A., Brown University, 2003
Awards and Honors
Conrad Humanities Scholar, 2018-2023
Lincoln Excellence for Assistant Professors (LEAP) Award, 2017-18
National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, 2016-2017
Additional Campus Affiliations
Associate Professor, Program in Comparative and World Literature
Associate Professor, Spanish and Portuguese
Associate Professor, Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory
Associate Professor, Program in Medieval Studies
Associate Professor, History
Associate Professor, European Union Center
Associate Professor, Center for South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
Associate Professor, Center for African Studies
External Links
Recent Publications
Calderwood, E. S. (2023). On Earth or in Poems: The Many Lives of al-Andalus. Harvard University Press. https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674292970
Calderwood, E. (2022). Strait Flow. PMLA, 137(5), 871-877. https://doi.org/10.1632/S0030812922000712
Calderwood, E. S., & Fernández Parrilla, G. (2021). What Is Moroccan Literature? History of an Object in Motion. Journal of Arabic Literature, 52(1-2), 97-123. https://doi.org/10.1163/1570064x-12341421
Calderwood, E. (2019). Moroccan Jews and the Spanish colonial imaginary, 1903–1951. Journal of North African Studies, 24(1), 86-110. https://doi.org/10.1080/13629387.2018.1459261
Calderwood, E. (2019). Spanish in a global key. Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies, 20(1-2), 53-65. https://doi.org/10.1080/14636204.2019.1609234
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