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 literature; Scholasticism and theology; religion in literature and the visual arts; manuscript studies; 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 Dream of Gluttony: Don Carnal, Doña Quaresma, and Oneiric Structure in the Libro de buen amor” (Comitatus: Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2009); “Berceo's Sacrificio de la misa: First Spanish Liturgical Textbook” (Hispania, 2011).  He is also a contributing author to the Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages (2010).

Forthcoming publications include: “On the Figure of Voxmea in Gonzalo de Berceo's Poema de Santa Oria” (Modern Philology, 2012) and “The Apocalypse Commentary Tradition in Medieval Europe” (book chapter in the Companion to the Medieval Apocalypstic, Brill Publishers). 

Poole is currently finishing a book manuscript entitled From Fact to Fiction: Creating Castilian Literary Discourse in the 12th and 13th Centuries (to be completed Summer 2011).  He has begun work on a second book manuscript on the presence of Augustinian theology in Iberian literary works of the 13th and 14th centuries.  He continues to work on a series of articles about theology in the works of Gonzalo de Berceo. 

In April 2011, Poole received the Sarai Ribicoff Award for the Encouragement of Teaching at Yale College.