#  Josiah Blackmore 

Nancy Clark Smith Professor of the Language and Literature of Portugal

Ph.D. Harvard University

On leave Spring 2025

 

 

 



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 email <jblackmore@fas.harvard.edu> 

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Josiah Blackmore is a scholar of Iberian literature and culture, with a focus on medieval and early modern Portuguese writing. He is the author of *Manifest Perdition: Shipwreck Narrative and the Disruption of Empire*(University of Minnesota Press, 2002) and *Moorings: Portuguese Expansion and the Writing of Africa* (University of Minnesota Press, 2009), and editor of *Queer Iberia: Sexualities, Cultures, and Crossings from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance* (Duke University Press, 1999).



 

 

 





 

 

- ## Specialty
    
     [Medieval Studies](/specialty/medieval-studies) [Romance Languages and Literatures](/specialty/romance-languages-and-literatures)