John Zemke

Romance Languages & Literatures

Center for Studies in Oral Tradition

223 Walter Williams Hall

University of Missouri

Columbia, MO  65211

Education

Universidade de Lisboa, Estudos Portugueses, August, 1991

University of California, Davis, Ph.D. Spanish,  September, 1988

Universidade de Coimbra, Curso de Férias, August, 1986

University of Wisconsin, Madison, M.A. Spanish, May, 1984

Wayne State University, B.A. Spanish, December, 1981

Professional Experience

Director, Center for Studies in Oral Tradition, University of Missouri, Columbia

Director, Center for eResearch, University of Missouri, Columbia

Editor, Oral Tradition

Professor, University of Missouri, Columbia,

Associate Professor, University of Missouri, Columbia, August 1999 - 2007

Assistant Professor, University of Missouri, Columbia, August, 1993-1999

Assistant Professor, Auburn University, August, 1990 - June 1993

Lecturer, University of California, Davis, September 1988 - June 1990

Books

Moshe ben Baruch Almosnino, Regimiento de la vida and Tratado de los sueños (Salonika, 1564), Medieval & Renaissance Text Series, 255. Tempe, AZ, 2004. (1)

 Critical Approaches to the "Proverbios morales" of Shem Tov de Carrión: An Annotated Bibliography. Newark, DE: Juan de la Cuesta, 1997. (2)

Introduction, notes, and transcription of Biblioteca Nacional iii.z.r Castigos y documentos del rey don Sancho and Consejo de consejeros (microfiche). Madison, WI: Hispanic Seminary of Medieval Studies, 1992; ADMYTE (Archivo digital de manuscritos y textos españoles), Micronet, Quinto Centenario España, Ministerio de Cultura, Biblioteca Nacional, 1992. (3)

Articles and Notes

Súplica matrimonial: un poema medieval judeoespañol desconocido (Vaticana Ebraici 377).  Aljamías: Homenaje a Álvaro Galmés Fuentes, 1-14. Eds. José Antonio Cid, Ignacio Ceballos Viro. in press. (1)

‘Et deue tener la paia enla mano & deue dezir yo jvro por aquel que fizo esta paia verde &

                sequa’: Is convivencia operative in the medieval fueros? Convivencia, 1-20. Ed., Connie Scarborough. Newark: DEL: Juan de la Cuesta, in press. (2)

Prólogo, Relatos populares de la Inquisición novahispana: rito, magia y superstición siglos XVII-XVIII, i-v. Eds.           Enrique Flores and Mariana Masera. Madrid: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, 2011. (3)

In Memoriam Samuel Cook, Mentor of Samuel G. Armistead (Edition and study of Parma Biblioteca Palatina 2666).    Spain’s Multicultural Legacies. Studies in Honor of Samuel G. Armistead, 333-47. Eds. Adrienne L. Martin and Cristina Martínez-Carrazo. Newark, DEL: Juan de la Cuesta, 2008. (4)

Jewish Literature. In Dictionary of Literary Biography. Medieval Spanish Literature. Vol. I. Beginnings-1369, 273-314. Eds. George D. Greenia and Frank Domínguez. Dictionary of Literary Biography. 2008 (5)

Improvisation, Inspiration, and Basque Verbal Contest: Identity in Performance. Ed. S.G. Armistead and J. Zulaika.  Voicing the Moment. Improvised Oral Poetry and Basque Tradition (Reno, Nevada: Center for Basque Studies 2005), 83-93. (6)

Medieval Spanish and Judeo-Spanish. Oral Tradition 18.2 (2003), 172-74.  (7)

Shem Tov de Carrión. Gen. Ed. E. Michael Gerli. Encyclopedia of Medieval Iberia. New York: Routledge. 2003. 753-54. (8)

The Poetics of Shem Tov’s Sermón. Jewish Culture and the Hispanic World: Essays in Memory of Joseph H. Silverman (Newark, DE: Juan de la Cuesta, 2000), 384-393. (9)

Invited respondent to Colbert Neupaulsingh on “Inflecting the Converso voice” (La Corónica, 25.1 [1996]). La Corónica, 28.1 (1999), 245-53. (10)        

El alma : el cuerpo :: el piloto : la nave (De anima 413a8). El regimiento de la vida de Moshe ben Baruch Almosnino. Proceedings of the European Association for Jewish Studies Congress  (July 20, 1998, Toledo, Spain). 2 vols. 2:694-701. Leiden: Brill. 1999. (11)

General Hispanic Traditions. Ed. John Miles Foley. Teaching Oral Traditions (New York: Modern Language Association, 1998), 205-215. (12)

Shem Tov de Carrión's Proverbios morales: A Sermon Addressed. Romance Philology, 51.2 (1997), 194-210. (13)

Invited respondent to critical cluster, “Inflecting the Converso voice” (La Corónica, 25.1 [1996]). La Corónica, 25.2 (1997), 191-193. (14)

Contexto y funcionamiento del ejemplo en el Regimiento de a vida  de R. Moshé ben Baruch Almosnino. Los tratados de cortesía y urbanidad en España y Portugal. Université Blaise-Pascal, Clermont-Ferrand, France, Jan. 9-11, 1992 (Université Blaise-Pascal:Association des publications de la Faculté des Lettres et Sciences humaines, 1995), 345-351. (15)

A Neglected Fragment of Shem Tov's Proverbios morales. La Corónica, 17 (1988), 76-89. (14)

Enrica J. Ardemagni, J. Zemke, et al. Text and Concordance of Biblioteca Nacional ms 18052 "Visita y consejo de medicos" (microfiche). Madison, WI: Hispanic Seminary of Medieval Studies, 1986. (16)

Current Research

Jewish Theological Seminary ENA 1917, monograph edition and study of a fifteenth-century Spanish Plague Treatise in Hebrew characters.

Parma Palatine 2666, folio 207, article-length edition and study a Hebrew alaxamía demand d’amour.

Curses, Vows, and Oaths in medieval Spanish literature. A monograph on  narrative functions

Book Reviews

Jesús António Cid, Cid, ed. El Romancero asturiano de Juan Menéndez Pidal: Nuevas encuestas de Juan y Ramón Menéndez Pidal, 1885-1910. Oviedo & Madrid: Fundación Ramón   Menéndez Pidal, 2010. 534pp La Corónica, in press. (17)

Samuel G. Armistead, Joseph H. Silverman, and Israel J. Katz. Judeo-Spanish Ballads from Oral Tradition, III.  Carolingian ballads (2): Conde Claros. Folk Literature of the Sephardic Jews, vol. V. Newark, Delaware:  Juan de la Cuesta, 2008. 636 pages + 9 plates. Bulletin of Spanish Studies (formerly Bulletin of Hispanic Studies). 87 (2010), 661-63. (18)

Samuel G. Armistead, Joseph H. Silverman, and Israel J. Katz. Judeo-Spanish Ballads from Oral Tradition, IV. Carolingian Ballads (3): Gaiferos. Folk Literature of the Sephardic Jews, vol. V. Newark, Delaware: Juan de la Cuesta, 2005, 2006. 567 pages + 17 plates. Bulletin of Spanish Studies 86 (2009), 692-94  (formerly Bulletin of Hispanic Studies), Glasgow. (19)

Ramón Santiago, Ana Valenciano, and Silvia Iglesias, eds. Tradiciones discursivas. Edición de textos orales y escritos. Madrid: Instituto Universitario Menéndez Pidal, Editorial Complutense, 2006. Bulletin of          Spanish Studies  86 (2009), 836-38 (formerly Bulletin of Hispanic Studies), Glasgow. (20)

John Miles Foley, How to Read an Oral Poem, Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2002. 256 pp.  Estudos de Literatura Oral 13/14 (2007-08), 372-79 (21)

Gregory B. Kaplan. The Evolution of Converso Literature. The Writings of the Converted Jews of Medieval Spain.Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 2002. 161 pp. Romance Philology 59 (2005), 193-200. (published 2007). (22)

Pedro M. Piñero Ramírez, ed. La eterna agonía del Romancero. Homenaje a Paul Bénichou. Actas del Encuentro Internacional sobre el Romancero, Sevilla, 25-27 October, 1999. Sevilla: Fundación Machado, 2001. 510 pages. Estudos de Literatura Oral 9/10 (2003-2004), 346-50. (23)

Elaine R. Miller. Jewish Multiglossia: Hebrew, Arabic, and Castilian in Medieval Spain. Newark, Delaware: Juan de la Cuesta, 2000. 160 pp. La corónica 31.1 (2002), 192-96. (24)

Norman Roth. Conversos, Inquisition, and the Expulsion of the Jews from Spain. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin, 1995. 429 pages. Speculum 74.2 (1999), 483-485. (25)

Michèle S. de Cruz-Sáenz, ed. with Teresa Catarella. Spanish Traditional Ballads from Aragón. Musical transcriptions by Christina D. Braidotti. London: Associated University Presses, 1995. 22 plates, 261 pages. Hispanic Review, 66 (1998), 85-87. (26)

Mishael M. Caspi, ed. Oral Tradition and Hispanic Literature. Essays in Honor of Samuel G. Armistead. The Albert Bates Lord Studies in Oral Tradition, 15. New York: Garland Publishing, 1995. xxiii and 647 pages. Hispanic Review, 65 (1997), 109-111. (27)

Samuel G. Armistead, Joseph H. Silverman, and Israel J. Katz. Judeo-Spanish Ballads from Oral Tradition, II, Carolingian Ballads (1): Roncesvalles. Berkeley: University of California, 1994. Hispanic Review, 64 (1996), 393-394. (28)

Concepción Company, et al. Heterodoxia y ortodoxia medieval (Actas de las Segundas Jornadas Medievales). México: UNAM, 1992. Hispanic Review, 63 (1995), 454-456. (29)

Laura Minervini. Testi Giudeoespagnoli Medievali, 2 vols. Napoli: Liguori Editore, 1992.

                Hispanic Review, 62 (1994), 106-108. (30)

Albert Barugel. The "Sacrifice of Isaac" in Spanish and Sephardic Balladry. New York: Peter Lang, 1990. Hispanic Review, 60 (1992), 476-479. (31)