Kevin R. Poole

Ph.D., The Ohio State University (2006)

Assistant Professor

Phone: (203) 432-1157

Email: kevin.poole@yale.edu

Areas of interest: Medieval Iberian history and culture; apocalypticism and millennarianism in medieval Christian Iberia; visual culture; nation- and empire-building in medieval and early modern Spain; manuscript culture; medievalism in modern culture.

Publications include: “In Search of Paradise: Time and Eternity in Alfonso X’s Cantiga 103” (eHumanista: Journal of Iberian Studies, 2007); “Beatus of Liébana: Medieval Spain and the Othering of Islam” (book chapter in End of Days: Understanding the Apocalypse from Antiquity to Modernity; McFarland, 2009); “Juan Ruiz’s Lenten Dreams of Gluttony: Don Carnal, Doña Quaresma, and Oneiric Structure in the Libro de buen amor” (Comitatus: Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2009).  He is also a contributing author to the forthcoming Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages, expected out in Spring 2010. 

Work in progress include a book-length study of Christianity and nation-building in the Spanish Middle Ages, as well as a study of the Gerona manuscript of the Beatus Commentaries on the Apocalypse.