Luis Girón Negrón is William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Comparative Literature and of Romance Languages and Literatures. His research focuses upon medieval and Golden Age Spanish literature, and on the religious and cultural life of Islamic, Jewish, and Christian communities in medieval Iberia. He is the author of Alfonso de la Torre's 'Visión Deleytable': Philosophical Rationalism and the Religious Imagination in 15th-Century Spain (Brill, 2001) and (with Laura Minervini) Las Coplas de Yosef: Entre la Biblia y el Midrash en la poesía judeoespañola (Gredos, 2006). His current projects include an edition and study of The Old Spanish Bible of Moshe Arragel, forthcoming from Brill, and an edition and translation of works by the Hispano-Jewish poets Antón de Montoro and Rodrigo Cota for the Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library.