Ana Grinberg

Education

PhD, University of California, San Diego (Literature–Medieval and Early Modern)

MA, San Diego State University (Women's Studies)

About Me

Ana Grinberg is a senior lecturer in the Department of English at Auburn University. She received her PhD from University of California, San Diego and her MA in women’s studies from San Diego State University. Grinberg specializes in medieval and early modern depictions of contact and cultural exchange between Islam and Western Christendom in epics and chivalric romances, with secondary specializations on monstrosity and medieval women’s writing.

Besides being a Faculty Fellow at the Biggio Center for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning, she is the president of Société Rencesvals, Pan-American Branch, a member of the executive committee of MEARCSTAPA (Monsters: The Experimental Association for the Research of Cryptozoology through Scholarly Theory and Practical Application), and a council member of the Southeastern Medieval Association.

Honors and Awards

Lecturer Teaching Excellence Award (2024)
Ruth T. Faulk Distinguished Teaching Award and Endowment (2020-23)
Instructor Teaching Excellence Award (2019)

Research Interests

Christian-Muslim encounters and exchanges; materiality, clothing, and disguise in epic and chivalric literature

Publications

Chapters in edited collections

• “Epics and Games in the Literature Classroom.” Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Teaching 33.1 (Spring 2026): 55-64.
• "A Portrait of an Enemy as a Young Man? Intimate Contacts of Charlemagne in Spain." The Legend of Charlemagne: Envisioning Empire in the Middle Ages, ed. Jace Stuckey. Explorations in Medieval Culture series (Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2021), 139-164.
• "Religious Identity, Loyalty, and Treason in the Cycle du Roi." Treason: Medieval and Early Modern Treachery, Betrayal and Shame, ed. Larissa Tracy. Explorations in Medieval Culture series (Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2019), 223-249.

Articles

• “Aigues-Mortes and Holy War in Historia del emperador Carlo Magno.” Medieval Perspectives 33 (2018): 49-58.
• “Robes, Turbans, and Beards: ‘Ethnic Passing’ in Decameron X.9.” Medieval Clothing and Textiles 13 (2017): 67-81.
• “Concerning the ‘Probable Mystery’ of Nicolás de Piemonte: Francisco Márquez Villanueva’s Relecciones de literatura medieval.” eHumanista/Conversos 2 (2014): 133-141.
• “The Lady, the Giant, and the Land: The Monstrous in Fierabras.” eHumanista 18 (2011): 186-192.

Courses Taught

Composition I and II; World Literature to 1600; Cultural Studies: Fairy Tales; Representations: All about Eve