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)