Department of Modern and Classical Languages
Saint Louis University, St. Louis, MO
Lieberjr@slu.edu

EDUCATION:
1989 Ph.D., Spanish and Latin American Literature,
 Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut
 Dissertation:  El teatro alegórico-religioso de Miguel de Barrios y la colonia
 de sefarditas de Amsterdam en el siglo XVII

TEACHING:
2001-           Associate Professor of Spanish, Saint Louis University

1995 - 2001  Assistant  Professor of Spanish, Saint Louis University

1989-1995   Assistant Professor of Spanish, Wittenberg University

1983 � 1989 Part-time Acting Instructor of Spanish, Yale University

PUBLICATIONS
Book
El teatro alegórico religioso de Miguel (Daniel Leví) de Barrios.  Newark, Delaware: Juan de la Cuesta, Hispanic Monographs, 1996.

Essays
��Jonen Dalim,� auto alegórico de Miguel (Daniel Leví) de Barrios,� in From Iberia to Diaspora.  Studies in Sephardic History and Culture.  Ed. by Yedida K. Stillman and Norman Stillman.  The Netherlands: Brill Academic Publishers, 1998.  300-315.

�Un sermone sull�educazione ebraica alla fine del seicento,� in Rassegna mensile di Israel, 65 (1999): 73-119.

�Estética conceptista y ética mercantilista de Confusión de confusiones (Amsterdam, 1688),� in Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, Glasgow, UK, 77 (Dec. 2000): 11-25.

�Retórica y emoción: el arte de la persuasión en una narrativa de José Penso de la Vega,� in Romance Notes, The University of North Carolina At Chapel Hill, Vol. XLI, 2 (2001): 191-198.

�Between Tradition and Modernity: The Sephardim of Livorno at the end of the Seventeenth Century,� in The Most Ancient of Minorities:  The History and Culture of the Jews of Italy.  Ed. Stanislao G. Pugliese.  Greenwood Publishing Group: Westport, Ct., 2002:67-76.

Book Review
Hebrews of the Portuguese Nation.  Conversos and Community in Early Modern Amsterdam.  In Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, Glasgow, UK, 77 (Dec. 2000): 386-387.

Publications forthcoming:
�Sermons and the Construct of a Jewish Identity: The Hamburg Sephardic Community in the 1620.�  In Jewish Studies Quarterly (April 2003)

�Reconstructing the Past: How the Portuguese Jews Reconnected with the Biblical Patriarchs.�   (Brill 2003)

Recent Award:
�The Maurice Amado Foundation Research Fund in Sephardic Studies�.  A fellowship for the academic year 2002-2003 from the Center for Jewish Studies, University of California, Los Angeles.

COURSES
Western Sephardi Diaspora (Fall 2002)