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James Nemiroff, PhD

Coord Ctr Global Lang/Cultures - Classical and Modern Languages and Cultures

eMail

jnemiroff@jcu.edu

Phone Number

216-397-4729

Location

O'Malley Center 144

Employee Type

Staff

Coordinator, Center for Global Languages and Cultures

James Nemiroff received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in Romance Languages and Literatures with a specialty in 16th and 17th century Spanish literature and culture. He also holds masters degrees in Spanish literature from the University of Chicago and the Spanish National Research Council in Madrid. He is also a proud liberal arts graduate holding a B.A. in Spanish from Reed College.

As a scholar of Early Modern Spanish literature and culture, his scholarship analyzes the interconnectedness between literature, historiography and religious practice in Early Modern Spain and examines how religious identities and historical chronicles imitate each other to create performed forgeries. Focusing in particular on Jewish-Christian relations in Jesuit drama, his research investigates to what degree the terms “Hebrew” “converso” and “Jew” go beyond their sociological distinctions in the 16th and 17th centuries and become categories of performance. His articles, published in such journals as E-humanista and collections published by Iberoamericana and the University of Chicago Press, consider religious identities as both figures of thought and figures of flesh and blood, exploring how religious traditions configure hermeneutic spaces that can be interpreted distinctly by Old Christians, converted Christians and Crypto-Jews.

Dr. Nemiroff has not only been a professor of Spanish language literature and culture but has also taught general humanities courses on English and Spanish academic writing. In all of his classes, he tries to promote animo, or the ability to make mistakes in a brave and collaborative space. One of the ways in which he achieves this goal in his classroom is by assigning collaborative projects that employ educational technologies ranging from augmented reality posters to virtual reality technologies to collaborative essays written as Wikipedia entries.

As coordinator of the Center for Global Languages and Cultures (CGLC), he strives to provide support for faculty and students in the Department of Classical and Modern Languages and Cultures by promoting technology-supported teaching and learning, maintaining a computer lab for classroom use, and overseeing a large inventory of books, movies and audio-visual resources. In the future, the CGLC will also seek to promote intercultural understanding and interdisciplinary collaboration by providing a space for student club meetings and organizing professional development workshops for students, faculty and staff.

Degrees

M.A., Ph.D., University of Chicago

M.A., Spanish National Research Council

B.A., Reed College