Claire Gilbert, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of History
Courses Taught
Graduate Seminar: Empire and Diplomacy in the Early Modern Hispanic World; Graduate Advanced Studies: Mediterranean History and the World; Graduate Advanced Studies: Early Modern Economies and Exchanges: Trust, Credit, and Reputation; Religious Conversion in an Age of Empire; Origins of the Modern World to 1500; History of the Language Sciences in Spain: Romans to Renaissance; Politics of Language; Origins of the Modern World: 1500 to the Present
Education
Research Interests
- Late Medieval/Early Modern Spain and the Western Mediterranean
- Language Contact and Multilingualism between Arabic and Romance languages
- Social History of Language and the History of Linguistics
- History of Translation
Publications and Media Placements
Books
In Good Faith: Arabic Translation and Translators in Early Modern Spain, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020.
Special Issues and Collective Volumes
Guest Editor, 鈥淎n Age of Translation,鈥� Journal of Early Modern Cultural Studies 21/4 (2021) [脫2023]
Peer Reviewed Articles
鈥淢orisco Catechisms: Religious Incorporation and Differentiation in Early Modern Spain,鈥� Religions 15/4 (2024): 1鈥�23.
鈥淎n Age of Translation: Towards a Social History of Linguistic Agents in the Early Modern World,鈥� Journal of Early Modern Cultural Studies 21/4 (2021 [脫2023]): 1鈥�23.
"Gobernar por traducci贸n: la memoria de los traductores estatales en la pol铆tica 谩rabe de los Austrias," TRANS. Revista de Traductolog铆a 25 (2021): 71-92.
"Professions of Exchange: Circulating Experts and Artisans between Spanish Habsburg Lands and Saadien Morocco," Pedralbes: Revista d鈥檋istoria Moderna 40 (2020): 123-141.
鈥淎 Grammar of Conquest: The Spanish and Arabic Reorganization of Granada after 1492,鈥� Past and Present, Volume 239/1 (2018), pp. 3鈥�40.
鈥淭he Circulation of Foreign News and the Construction of Imperial Ideals: The Spanish
Translators of A岣ad al-Man峁Ｅ玶,鈥� Memoria y Civilizaci贸n 18 (2015): 37-70.
Chapters in Edited Volumes
鈥淓mpire of Translation: Multilingual Administrative Dynasties in Habsburg Spain鈥� in Iberian Babel: Multilingualism and Translation in the Medieval and the Early Modern Mediterranean, edited by N煤ria Silleras-Fern谩ndez and Michelle Hamilton, Brill, 2022, pp. 170-194.
"Arabic from the Margins: Hispano-Moroccan Translation between Classical Arabic and Humanist Traditions in Early Modern Spain," in Premodern Translation: Comparative Approaches to Cross-Cultural Transformations, Sonja Brentjes and Alexander Fidora (eds), Turnhout: Brepols, 2021, 133-164.
鈥淛uegos de reputaci贸n: honra, servicio y traducci贸n en la Monarch铆a Hisp谩nica,鈥� in Homenaje a Araceli Guillaume-Alonso. La reputation: qu锚te individuelle et aspiration collective dans l'Espagne des Habsbourg, Beatrice P茅rez (ed.), Presses de l鈥橴niversit茅 Paris-Sorbonne, 2018, pp. 475-498.
鈥淪ocial Context, Ideology and Translation,鈥� in The Routledge Handbook of Translation and Culture, Sue-Ann Harding and Ovidi Carbonell-Cort茅s (eds), 2018, pp. 225-242.
鈥淭ransmission, Translation, Legitimacy and Control: The Activities of a Multilingual
Scribe in Morisco Granada,鈥� in Multilingual and Multigraphic Manuscripts and Documents of East and West, Giuseppe Mandala and Inmaculada P茅rez Marin (eds.), Gorgias Press, 2018.
鈥淭he King, the Coin, and the Word: Imagining and Enacting Castilian Frontiers in Late
Medieval Iberia,鈥� in Authority and Spectacle in Medieval and Early Modern Iberia, Gen Liang and Jarbel Rodr铆guez (eds), Ashgate, 2017, pp. 33-45.
Honors and Awards
- Faculty Excellence Award, SLU Student Government Association 2023
- NEH Summer Institute at 老司机福利网: 鈥淕lobal Geographies of Knowledge: Creating, Representing, and Commodifying Ideas Across Early Modern Places, 1400-1800鈥� (co-Principle Investigator) 2022鈥�2023
- Newberry Library Center for Renaissance Studies Consortium Grant 2022
- Provost鈥檚 Research Fellowship (SLU) 2021
- Franklin Research Grant, American Philosophical Association 2021
- Beaumont Research Award in the Humanities (SLU) 2020
- Paul C. Reinert, S.J. Center for Transformative Teaching & Learning (SLU) Innovative Teaching Fellowship 2020
- SLU Summer Research Award in the Humanities 2019
- National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship 2017-2018
- SLU Student Government Association Faculty Excellence Award 2016
- American Philosophical Society Franklin Research Grant 2015-2016
- National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute, "Negotiating Identities," Barcelona 2015
- SSRC International Dissertation Research Fellowship, 2012-2013
- Huntington Library Travel Grant for Research in the U.K., 2012
- Spain-US Program for Cultural Cooperation (PCC) Research Grant, 2011
- IIE Fulbright Research Grant, Madrid, Spain, 2010-2011
- Critical Language Scholarship, Arabic, Muscat, Oman, 2010
- Critical Language Scholarship, Arabic, Amman, Jordan, 2009
- FLAS Academic Year Fellowship, Arabic, 2008-2009