Akbari, Suzanne - English

Personal Information
First Name: 
Suzanne
Nom: 
Akbari
Autre: 
English and Medieval Studies
Affiliation universitaire: 
University of Toronto
Phone: 
4169786271
Email Address: 
Area of Research
Discipline: 
English
Objet: 
Biology
Medicine
Région géographique: 
England
Europe
Champ d'études: 
Optics, geography/cartography, medicine, mathematics, astronomy/astrology history of biology (climate theory), history of medicine (astrology), history of technology (optics), history of mathematics (mechanistic and calculators)
Academics
PHD Program: 
English and Comparative Literature
PHD University: 
Columbia University
PHD Date: 
1995
Major Publications: 
The Ends of the Body: Identity and Community in Medieval Culture. Co-ed. with Jill Ross. (University of Toronto Press, 2012); Seeing through the Veil: Optical Theory and Medieval Allegory (U of Toronto P, 2004); Idols in the East: European Representations of Islam and the Orient, 1100-1450 (Cornell UP, 2009) ; "The Diversity of Mankind in the Book of John Mandeville" 2004; "Orientation and Nation in the Canturbury Tales" 2002.
Membre des sociétés académiques: 
Medieval Academy of America; Canadian Society of Medievalists; Modern Language Association
Courses Taught: 
Origins of Orientalism; Body and Identity in Moiddle Englis Literature; Constructions of the Other in Medieval Literature.