Name:

Dr. Nahir I. Otaño Gracia

Title:

Assistant Professor

Department:

English

Describe your research in about 200 words.

My theoretical frameworks include Medieval English literature and culture, translation theory and practice, the global North Atlantic, and critical identity studies. I have published a number of articles on Arthurian literature written in Old Castilian, Catalan, and Old Norse Icelandic. I just submitted my co-edited volume titled Women’s Lives: Self-representation, Reception, and Appropriation to the University of Whales Press. I am also an activist medievalist and I have written on prejudice in the Middle Ages and on my experiences as a medievalist of color.

What’s the most interesting thing you have learned from a student?

How to build each other up (when to push forward and when to back down), not by being competitive but by being inclusive.