Nasser Meerkhan holds a joint position as Assistant Professor between the departments of Spanish & Portuguese and Near Eastern Studies at UC Berkeley. His book project, tentatively titled From Muses to Makers: Women Writers of Medieval Iberia, retells the literary history of medieval Iberia from the perspective of women writers. The project foregrounds the measures that medieval Iberian women writers took to (re)produce meaning through social interactions, at once appropriating and subverting the channels that they had at their disposal to push against constant attempts to restrict their creative processes. Other research and teaching interests of his include the historiography of medieval Iberia, frame tales, aljamiado literature, Don Quixote and the picaresque.
“I think of my experience at UVA as a neatly woven net of critical thinking, professional experience, and scholarly endeavors that took shape thanks to the university’s incredible resources as well as the consistent support from my mentors. I came to UVA with the curiosities of an amateur scholar, yet I graduated from it with the preparedness, passion and professionalism of a critic and of an educator.”