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1 De Souza CV 1 CURRICULUM VITAE IGOR H. DE SOUZA - Yale University igor.h.desouza@yale.edu CURRENT APPOINTMENT Lecturer, Department of English Lecturer, Humanities Program Associate Research Scholar, Judaic Studies EDUCATION Ph.D M.A B.A Department: Committee on Jewish Studies Dissertation: Philosophical Commentaries on the Guide of the Perplexed, c Advisor: James T. Robinson Department: Committee on Jewish Studies University of Tennessee, Knoxville Department: College Scholars Honors Program Thesis: The Figurative Language of Medieval Jewish Exegesis: Contexts and Critiques. Advisor: Gilya G. Schmidt. summa cum laude. FORTHCOMING WORKS Book Rewriting Maimonides: Early Commentaries on the Guide of the Perplexed, Walter De Gruyter and the Maimonides Centre for Advanced Studies, University of Hamburg, forthcoming Inaugural volume for the series

2 De Souza CV 2 Traditions in Jewish Thought, Philosophy, and Religion. Book Chapter Encyclopedia entry Commentaries on the Guide of the Perplexed: Formal and Literary Trends. Forthcoming in The Literary Forms of Medieval Jewish Philosophy, eds Aaron Hughes and James T. Robinson (Indiana University Press) Medieval Philosophy: Jewish Contribution. Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Philosophy of Religion. WORKS IN PROGRESS Article Article Article Commentary as Transgression: Interpretation and Esotericism Among Early Commentators of the Guide of the Perplexed. Under revision for Jewish Studies Quarterly. Maimonides for the Masses: A Re-appraisal of Joseph ibn Kaspi s Commentaries on the Guide of the Perplexed. Advanced draft. Commentaries on the Guide of the Perplexed: A Historical Introduction. Advanced draft PREVIOUS POSITIONS & FELLOWSHIPS Flegg Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Jewish Studies, McGill University Lecturer, Portuguese Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, Writing Instructor Writing Program, Language Assistant, Portuguese Department of Romance Languages and Literatures,

3 De Souza CV Visiting Research Fellowship Judaic Studies Program, Brown University Affiliated Fellowship Franke Institute for the Humanities, (declined) AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION History of Judaism Jewish Thought and Philosophy - Medieval and Early Modern Literary Approaches to Philosophical Texts AREAS OF COMPETENCE Jewish Thought and Philosophy - Modern Islamic Thought & Philosophy Transatlantic Studies Diaspora, Migration and Ethnicity TEACHING EXPERIENCE McGill University Winter 2016 Modernity in Jewish Thought (upper undergraduate) Survey of Jewish Thought from Spinoza to the present. Fall 2015 Winter 2015 Fall 2014 Between Athens and Jerusalem: Philosophy and Judaism in Dialogue (lower undergraduate). Survey of Jewish Thought from Philo to Spinoza. History and Cultures of the Portuguese-Jewish Diaspora (upper undergraduate). Philosophy and Biblical Exegesis in Maimonides and the Maimonidean Tradition (graduate).

4 De Souza CV 4 Fall/Winter 2014 Lecturer, Elementary Portuguese I/II (lower undergraduate). Winter 2014 Fall 2013 Spring 2013 Fall 2012/ Winter 2013 Winter 2008 Winter 2007 Writing Instructor, Human Being and Citizen, Humanities Core (lower undergraduate). Writing Instructor, Language and the Human, Humanities Core (lower undergraduate). Lecturer, Elementary Portuguese III (lower undergraduate). Language Assistant, Beginning Elementary Portuguese I/II (lower undergraduate) Co-Lecturer, Jewish Thought and Literature II: Medieval Jewish Thought: Philosophy, Theology, Sufism, Kabbalah (lower/upper undergraduate). Teaching Assistant, Jewish Thought and Literature II: From Mishnah to Maimonides (upper undergraduate). RECENT PRESENTATIONS Maimonides for the Masses: A Re-appraisal of Joseph ibn Kaspi s Commentaries on the Guide of the Perplexed, Association for Jewish Studies, December 2015 The Responsibility of Maimonidean Intellectuals, Yale Colloquium in Jewish Thought, April Philosophical Allegory in Commentaries on the Guide of the Perplexed. Annual Conference of the Association for Jewish Studies, December Roundtable Participant, The Future of Medieval Jewish Philosophy. Annual Conference of the Association for Jewish Studies, December Jewish Thought in13th-century Italy: Between Isolation and Collaboration. Annual Meeting of the American Association of Italian

5 De Souza CV 5 Studies, Charleston, SC, May The first purpose of this Treatise : Commentaries on the equivocal terms of Maimonides Guide of the Perplexed. Annual Conference of the Association for Jewish Studies, December GRANTS & AWARDS Whiting Dissertation-Year Doctoral Fellowship, Division of the Humanities,, Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture Doctoral Fellowship, Doolittle-Harrison Fellowship Travel Grant, December Research and Travel Grant, Chicago Center for Jewish Studies, Summer (for archival research at the National Library of Israel, Jerusalem) Mellon Graduate Achievement Fellowship,, Provost s Summer Fellowship, Humanities Division,, Summer American Friends of Hebrew University, grant for Hebrew language study. Rothberg International School, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Summer Committee on Jewish Studies,, grant for Hebrew language study. The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Summer Committee on Jewish Studies, The, grant for Hebrew language study. University of Haifa, Summer Nielsen Scholarship Award in support of the College Scholars Program, Spring Merit Award of the National Society of Collegiate Scholars, Gildin Yiddish Book Scholarship, National Yiddish Book Center, 2001.

6 De Souza CV 6 LANGUAGES & LANGUAGE TRAINING Advanced knowledge Portuguese (native) French (oral and written fluency) Hebrew (rabbinical/medieval/modern; oral and written fluency) German (written fluency; intermediate oral fluency) Reading knowledge Spanish (advanced) Italian (advance) Yiddish (intermediate) Arabic (intermediate) Latin (elementary) Ulpan Certificate and Hebrew p tor Exam. Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Hebrew language study (Ulpan Levels Heh - Vav) Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Summer 2006 High Pass, German Reading Exam. Dept. of Germanics,, High Pass, French Reading Exam Dept. of Romance Languages and Literature,, Hebrew language study (Ulpan Level Dalet), University of Haifa, Summer SERVICE TO THE PROFESSION Editor, PESHAT Project - Database of Philosophic and Scientific Hebrew Terminology ( Reviewer, Harvard Theological Review. Session Organizer, Genre and Theory in the Study of Medieval Jewish Texts, Annual Conference of the Association for Jewish Studies, December 2012.

7 De Souza CV 7 REFERENCES Carlos Fraenkel Professor, Philosophy & Jewish Studies McGill University carlos.fraenkel@mcgill.ca Racheli Haliva Co-Director, Maimonides Centre for Advanced Studies Junior Professor University of Hamburg racheli.haliva@uni-hamburg.de James T. Robinson Professor, Divinity School jtr@uchicago.edu Josef Stern Professor, Philosophy j06s@uchicago.edu