Andrea Pauw
Department of Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures
Assistant Professor
McMurran Hall 102
(757) 594-7107
andrea.pauw@cnu.edu
Education
- Ph D in Spanish, University of Virginia
- MA in Spanish, University of Virginia
- BA in Hispanic Studies, Davidson College
Teaching
Intermediate Spanish Language
Introduction to Spanish Literature I and II
Advanced Spanish Conversation
Research
Premodern Iberian Literatures and Cultures
Moriscos and Aljamiado Manuscript Production
Linguistic Anthropology
19th-century Cultural and Intellectual History
Biography
Dr. Andrea Pauw received her Ph.D. in Spanish from the University of Virginia in 2020. A specialist in early modern Iberian literatures and cultures, her research examines aljamiado (Spanish written with the Arabic alphabet) manuscripts produced by moriscos (Muslims forcibly converted to Christianity in the sixteenth century) through the lens of linguistic anthropology. Her research has been published in the Hispanic Review and in Routledge’s Companion to Medieval Iberia: Unity in Diversity. Dr. Pauw’s current book project examines representations of moriscos in nineteenth-century history writing, visual art, and the press, arguing that the confluence of interest in the moriscos’ past and discoveries of aljamiado manuscripts profoundly shaped the emergence of the modern Spanish nation-state.