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Suzanne Conklin Akbari is Professor of Medieval Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, NJ. Her books are on optics and allegory (Seeing Through the Veil<\/em>) and European views of Islam and the Orient (Idols in the East<\/em>), and she\u2019s also edited volumes on travel literature, Mediterranean Studies, and somatic histories, plus How We Write<\/em> and How We Read<\/em>. Her most recent book is The Oxford Handbook of Chaucer<\/em> (2020), co-edited with James Simpson. A co-editor of the Norton Anthology of World Literature<\/em>, Akbari co-hosts a literature podcast called The Spouter Inn.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

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Research related to commentary<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Suzanne Akbari\u2019s work draws upon commentaries on Plato, Boethius, and Ovid to investigate medieval theories of knowledge and change, and she has published two books (How We Write<\/em>, 2015; How We Read<\/em>, 2019) centering on the formation of affective communities around the page. Akbari has written about two commentary texts: Christine de Pizan\u2019s Epistre Othea<\/em>, a work of autocommentary that employs a creative mise-en-page<\/em> format, and the anonymous commentaries on ekphrastic passages in Walter of Ch\u00e2tillon\u2019s Alexandreis<\/em>. She is also interested in the materiality of commentary, which informs her work within the Book and the Silk Roads research network.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Publications related to commentary<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

\u201cNaming the Children of Jacob: The Shape of Negative Theology in the Benjamin Minor<\/em>.\u201d Listing: Medieval and Early Modern British Writing<\/em>. Ed. Eva von Contzen and James Simpson. Columbus: Ohio State University Press [in press, to appear February 2021].<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOne Loveheart Emoji at a Time: The Building of Affective Community in a Digital Medieval Studies Lab.\u201d Digital Humanities Quarterly<\/em> 14.3 (2020). Special issue, \u201cLab and Slack: Situated Research Practices in Digital Humanities,\u201d ed. Mila Oiva and Urszula Pawlicka-Deger. [Senior author, with Lawrence Evalyn, C.E.M. Henderson, Julia King, Jessica Lockhart, and Laura Mitchell.]<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cEkphrasis and Commentary in Walter of Chatillon\u2019s Alexandreis<\/em>.\u201d Special issue on \u201cTheories and Practices of Commentary,\u201d ed. Christina Lechtermann and Markus Stock. Zeitspr\u00fcnge<\/em> 24.1-2 (2020): 101-17.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSeeing Jerusalem: Schematic Views of the Holy City, 1100-1300.\u201d  Aspects of Knowledge: Preserving and Reinventing Traditions of Learning in the Middle Age<\/em>. Ed. Marilina Cesario and Hugh Magennis. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2018. 116-41. [With Asa Simon Mittman].\u201cOvid and Ovidianism.\u201d The Oxford History of Classical Reception in English Literature, Vol. 1:  The Middle Ages<\/em>. Ed. Rita Copeland. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015. 187\u2013208.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Other publications<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Idols in the East: European Representations of Islam and the Orient, 1100-1450<\/em>. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2009; paperback edition 2012.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seeing Through the Veil: Optical Theory and Medieval Allegory<\/em>. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2004; paperback edition 2012.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A Sea of Languages: Rethinking the Arabic Role in Medieval Literary History<\/em>. Ed. Suzanne Conklin Akbari and Karla Mallette. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2013<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How We Write: Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blank Page<\/em>. Ed. Suzanne Conklin Akbari. Dead Letter Office. Brooklyn, NY: Punctum Books, 2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How We Read: Tales, Fury, Nothing, Sound<\/em>. Ed. Kaitlin Heller and Suzanne Conklin Akbari. Dead Letter Office. Brooklyn, NY: Punctum Books, 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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