Leyla Rouhi

Scholarship/Creative Work

Founding editor, with Irene Mizrahi and Sonia Pérez Villanueva, ConSecuencias: A Journal of Spanish Criticism. http://consecuenciasspanishjournal.com/

Forthcoming:

edited with Alireza Korangy,  The Other Martyrs: Women and the Poetics of Sexuality, Sacrifice, and Death (Otto Harrassowitz Verlag Press, 2018).

with Julie A. Cassiday, “La heroíca alcahueta dormía la siesta: La Celestina’s Presence in La Regenta” forthcoming in Decimonónica 16.1 (2019).

“Going Between Spaces in La Celestina and El libro de buen amor,” (Brill, volume co-edited by Felipe Rojas and Peter Thompson)

“Las traducciones de Don Quijote en persa,” in Irán-Mundo Hispánico (SILEX ediciones, 2019).

with Julie A. Cassiday, “Persian Cargo on a Russian Ark: The Role of Iran in Sokurov’s Russian Ark” International Journal of Persian Literature vol 2, No 1, (2017) 63-93.

“Lope de Vega and the Meanings of Book Ownership” Hipógrifo 4.1, (2016)  255-269

“The Shadow of Islam in Cervantes,” in The Persistence of Philology: Rethinking the Arabic Role in Medieval Literary History, ed. Suzanne Conklin Akbari and Karla Mallette (University of Toronto Press, 2014).

“Vassar’s Culinary Ambassador, Penleope Casas,” Vassar Alumnae/i Quarterly, Volume 109 Issue 2 (2013)

El anacronópete, by Enrique Gaspar (translated with Michael Cooperson) (January, 2012).

“Don Quixote in Persian,” Motarjem magazine, Teheran 2011.

“Miguel de Cervantes, Early Modern Spain, and the Challenges to the Meaning of Islam,” in Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication, Volume 4, Number 1, (2011) pp. 7-22.

“My Father, Amir-Hossein Rouhi,” in Payab Magazine, Teheran, June 2011 (in Persian).

“La literatura persa a través de los mss de la Fundación Lázaro Galdiano,” in Las artes del libro oriental. Manuscritos en árabe, armenio, hebreo y persa en la Fundación Lázaro Galdiano. Armen Tokatlian, María Jesús Viguera Molins y Juan Antonio Yeves Andrés, edit. Madrid: Ed. Lázaro Galdiano, 2010.

“A Handsome Boy Among those Barbarous Turks: Cervantes and the Art and Science of Desire,” in Islamicate Sexualities, ed. Najmabadi and Babayan (Harvard, 2008).

“Reading Cervantes in a Time of War,” in In the Light of Medieval Spain, ed Coleman and Doubleday (Palgrave, 2008).

“The Representation of Gender in Pre-modern Persian and Arabic Literature,” Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures in Islam, Brill (ongoing series).

Special edition of Medieval Encounters 12.3 (December 2006), coedited with María J. Feliciano and Cynthia Robinson.

Under the Influence: Questioning the Comparative in Medieval Castile, co-edited with Cynthia Robinson, (Brill, 2004). Intrioduction (co-authored with Cynthia Robinson) and chapter on Juan de Segovia’s Study of Islam (“A Fifteenth-Century Salamancan’s Pursuit of Islamic Studies.”

Mediation And Love: A Study of the Medieval Go-Between in Key Romance and Near-Eastern Texts. (Leiden, 1999)

“Trotaconventos and the Dynamics of Dialectical Reasoning.” Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, 1, 1999.

“From Nevski Prospect to Zoia’s Apartment: Trials of a Russian Procuress.” (Co-author, with Julie A. Cassiday) Russian Review 58, 3 (1999).

“A Definition of Medieval Woman’s Work.” Celestinesca, 22 (ii) 1998.

Feminist Encyclopedia of Spanish Literature, Greenwood Press: Three entries on medieval topics. (1997)

Encyclopedia of Erotic Literature (two entries on Medieval Iberia).

Translator, with Deborah Jensen, “Interview with Hélène Cixous,” in Shifting Scenes: Interviews on Women. Writing and Politics in Post-68 France, edited by Alice Jardine and Anne Menke (Columbia University Press, 1991) 32-51.

Numerous reviews on Persian, French, Spanish, and Arabic literature and culture.