Francisco Peña, PhD

Professor

Languages and World Literatures, World Literatures
Other Titles: Associate Member, History
Office: CCS 163
Phone: 250.807.8044
Email: francisco.pena@ubc.ca

Graduate student supervisor



Research Summary

Literary Studies, Biblical Studies, Religious Studies, and History of Ideas; literary study of the Bible; influence of the Bible in Medieval and Early Modern Spanish literature; Jewish/Christian relations in Medieval Iberia.

Courses & Teaching

Wold Literature; Spanish Culture and Literature; Ancient and Medieval Mythology, Biblical Literature, and Judeo-Spanish and Converso studies.

Biography

My research is wide-ranging and interdisciplinary in nature involving Literary Studies, Biblical Studies, Religious Studies, and History of Ideas.

Websites

dege.ok.ubc.ca

ubc.academia.edu/FranciscoPenaFernandez

Degrees

B.A. Ancient and Medieval History, PhD Religious Studies (Universidad Complutense de Madrid) and PhD in Spanish Medieval Literature (Univesity of California, Davis)

Research Interests & Projects

PI of The Confluence of Religious Cultures in Medieval Historiography: A Digital Humanities Project finance by the SSHRC Insight Grant. This research project comprises the first interdisciplinary study of the General e grand estoria (GGE). This thirteenth-century Castilian document in three volumes offers the first, and probably the only, Medieval Universal History and particular version of the Bible in which Christian, Jewish, Islamic, and apocryphal interpretations are included, as well as a retelling of the mythological and historiographical traditions of the Greek and Latin classical world. We employ Digital Humanities tools to analyze the confluence of Jewish, Christian, and Muslim biblical interpretation in Medieval Iberia, and thus enables us to create an edition and translation that reflects a more comprehensive understanding of its meaning as intended by its authors.

Selected Publications & Presentations

2022. La temprana sombra de Caín. Almuzara Universidad: Cordoba.

2020. “Writing as a Christian. Crypto-Jewish writers at the Alphonsine Scriptorium”. Kurt Villads Jensen, Anthony Lappin, and Kim Bergqvist (eds.) Minorities and Interreligious Relations in Medieval Iberia, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, New Castle.

2015 “Tratamiento bíblico de la desobediencia al rey y la fidelidad a Dios y su relectura en el teatro barroco español”. Disobedient Practices: Textual Multiplicity in Medieval and Golden Age Spain. Anne Silo and Belén Bistue (eds) Delaware: Juan de la Cuesta, 61-84.

2014 Francisco Peña Fernández. “La Relatividad de las cosas: Heterodoxy and Midrashim in the First Chapters of the General Estoria” eHumanista 24. 551-570.

2014 Francisco Peña Fernández. “Francisco Márquez Villanueva y el legado de Américo Castro” Alfonso X y su tiempo de frontera. Emilio González Ferrín (ed.) Fundación Tres Culturas del Mediterráneo, Sevilla, 37-71.

2013. Francisco Peña Fernández. Alvaro Cubillo de Aragón: “El Justo Lot”. Vigo: Academia de Hispanismo, Vigo (First Critical edition of 17th Century Spanish Comedy)

2012. Eva Castro Caridad and Francisco Peña Fernández. Sobre la Fe Católica: Contra los Judíos. Sevilla: Universidad de Sevilla, 2012. (First translation from Latin with Introduction and notes of Isidore of Seville´s De Fide Catholica Contra-Iudaeos)

2012 Francisco Peña Fernández. “¿Justo, Lot?” Relectura de Génesis 19 y de su dramatización en la comedia bíblica de Álvaro Cubillo de Aragón: El justo Lot La Biblia en el teatro del español. Juan Antonio Martínez Berbel y Francisco Domínguez Matito (Eds), Vigo: Academia del Hispanismo, 559-572.

2008 Francisco Peña Fernández “La sangre que clama en silencio. Intertextualidad bíblica en El Libro de las armas de don Juan Manuel”, Spain´s Multicultural Legacies. Studies in Honor of Samuel G. Armistead. Adrienne Martin and Cristina Martínez Carazo (ed.) Madrid: Juan de la Cuesta, 215-238.

2008 Francisco Peña Fernández. “Sancho Panza and the Mimesis of Solomon: Medieval Jewish Tradition in Don Quijote”, The Conversos in Spain and Beyond Studies I, Kevin Ingram (ed) Leiden: Brill, 331-333.

2007 Francisco Peña Fernández. “El Otro Héroe. Naufragios de Cabeza de Vaca como palimpsesto bíblico”, Bandue. Revista de la Sociedad Española de Ciencias de las Religiones 1, 179-194.

2007 Francisco Peña Fernández. “Violencia y Reconciliación: La transformación de la historia de José y sus hermanos en el teatro hispánico del siglo XVII” EHumanista vol. 9, 196-217.

2007 Francisco Peña Fernández. “Medieval Traditions of Jewish Origin in the Episode of Sancho Panza and the Island of Barataria” South Atlantic Review 72 (Special Issue: Cultural Studies in the Spanish Golden Age) 212-229.

2006. Francisco Peña Fernández. José Saramago o la intertextualidad inversa: Transformación de la tradición apócrifa en O Evanghelo segundo Jesus Cristo. Ilu. Revista de Ciencias de las Religiones. Anejos. Madrid: Universidad Complutense de Madrid.

2004. Francisco Peña Fernández. Apócrifos bíblicos contemporáneos: definición, estructura y análisis. Madrid: Universidad Complutense de Madrid.

2002 Francisco Peña Fernández. “Apocalíptico: nuevas acepciones de un adjetivo complejo”, Miedo y religion. F. Diez de Velasco (ed.), Madrid: Ediciones del Orto, 121-126.

2000. Francisco Peña Fernández. “Evangelios Apócrifos Contemporáneos: novelados, revelados y encontrados”, ‘Ilu. Revista de Ciencias de las Religiones, 217-246.

1999 Francisco Peña Fernández. “Apocalíptica Secular Contemporánea”, La Religión y sus Metamorfosis. Una apreciación de los nuevos movimientos religiosos, José Demetrio Jiménez (ed), Madrid: Religión y Cultura.

2000. Introducción a la Teología de la Liberación, ed. R. Rowlands, Cambridge University Press, Madrid, 2000 (Translation from English of The Cambridge Companion to Liberation Theology: Fernan Gonzalez-Alemán and Francisco Peña Fernández.

 

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