Alexandra Cuffel's research and teaching focus on relations between Jews,
Christians and Muslims during the Middle Ages, specifically on the intersections of
religious polemic, medical theories and gender both in Western Europe and the Middle
East. She is currently working on a new monograph project, Shared Saints and Festivals
among Jews, Christians and Muslims in the Mediterranean 1100-1650, for which she received
a research fellowship in Women’s Studies in Religion at Harvard Divinity School and a
fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies. 

EDUCATION: B.A., Indiana University University of Cambridge, Girton College, England
Ph.D., New York University

Journal Articles

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From Practice to Polemic: shared saints and festivals as ‘women’s religion’ in the medieval Mediterranean.”, The Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies (2005)
 

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Review of: Gender in the Early Medieval World East and West 300-900, Bryn Mawr Classical Review (2005)
 

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Review of: Power in the Portrayal: Representations of Jews and Muslims in Eleventh- and Twelfth-Century Islamic Spain, Al-Masaq (2004)
 

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“Henceforward all generations will call me blessed”: Medieval Christian Tales of Non-Christian Marian Veneration, Mediterranean Studies (2003)
 

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Call and Response: European Jewish Emigration to Egypt and Palestine in the Middle Ages, Jewish Quarterly Review (1999)
 

Books

Gendering Disgust in Medieval Religious Polemic (2007)
 

Religion, Gender, and Culture in the Pre-Modern World (with Brian M. Britt) (2007)
 

Contributions to Books

Immaculate Conception, Dictionary of the Middle Ages Supplement (2004)