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I am a Senior Lecturer of Hebrew and Jewish Studies at the University of Granada, Spain. My research interests include the medieval Hebrew textual production on women’s health care, with a focus on women as recipients and givers of medical care; medicine among medieval Jews of southern Europe; Jewish debates on sexual difference and the construction of meanings for the female body; and Jewish knowledge and practice of magic in the Middle Ages. I have authored The Book of Women’s Love and the Jewish Medieval Medical Literature on Women: Sefer ahavat nashim (2004) and 3 other monographs, co-edited the collective volume Late Medieval Jewish Identities. Iberia and Beyond (2010), and published numerous book chapters and essays in specialized journals. I have participated in over 60 international conferences and colloquiums, three of which I have organized. I currently lead the Project titled “Language and Literature of Rabbinic and Medieval Judaism”, funded by the Spanish Government. For the last few years, I have been working on the early stages of the formation of the Hebrew corpus on women's health care. In this framework, I am currently working on two projects: the early reception of Ibn Sina's gynaecological ideas in the Hebrew gynaecological corpus through the adaptation of parts of the Book III of his Canon; and the role of rabbinic discourse in the adaptation and "judaization" of gynaecological texts from the Greco-Latin tradition translated from Latin into Hebrew.
I have held various positions in university management, mainly in the field of internationalization and Language Policy.