Denise A. Spellberg
Associate Professor — Ph.D., 1989, Columbia University
Contact
- E-mail: spellberg@austin.utexas.edu
- Phone: 512-475-7202
- Office: GAR 3.208
- Campus Mail Code: B7000
Biography
Research interests
Medieval Islamic history, religion, and gender, Islamic historiography, and Islam in Europe and America.
Courses taught
History of the Middle East from 570 to 1453, Gender in Islamic History, Islamic Spain and North Africa, Islam in Europe and America, Islamic Historiography.
Recent Publications
Politics, Gender, and the Islamic Past: The Legacy of Aisha bint Abi Bakr(Columbia University Press, 1994); "Writing the Unwritten Life of the Islamic Eve: Menstruation and the Demonization of Motherhood," International Journal of Middle East Studies 28 (1996): 305-324; "Inventing Matamoras: Gender and the Forgotten Islamic Past in the United States of America," Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies 25 (2004): 148-164; "Could a Muslim Be President? An Eighteenth-Century Constitutional Debate," Eighteenth-Century Studies 39 (2006): 485-506.
