Alexandra Cuffel
Alexandra Fredricka Caroline Cuffel is an American Judaist .
Life
She earned her BA in Medieval Studies from Indiana University in 1988 , the MPhil Medieval History from Cambridge University in 1990 and her Ph.D. Medieval History at New York University . She is professor for the past and present of Jewish religion at the Ruhr University in Bochum .
Her research focuses on the relationships between Jews, Christians and Muslims in the Middle Ages, particularly on the intersections of religious polemics, medical theories and gender in both Western Europe and the Middle East.
Fonts (selection)
- with Brian Britt (Ed.): Religion, gender, and culture in the pre-modern world . New York 2007, ISBN 1-4039-7218-4 .
- Gendering disgust in medieval religious polemic . Notre Dame 2007, ISBN 0-268-02367-0 .
- with Ana Echevarria and Georgios T. Halkias (Eds.): Religious boundaries for sex, gender, and corporeality . London 2019, ISBN 978-0-8153-9950-6 .
- with Nikolas Jaspert (Ed.): Entangled hagiographies of the religious other . Newcastle upon Tyne 2019, ISBN 1-5275-1626-1 .
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| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Cuffel, Alexandra |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Cuffel, Alexandra Fredricka Caroline |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American Judaist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 20th century |