Francisco Peña
Assistant Professor, Spanish
Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies
Arts Building, ART230
University of British Columbia Okanagan
Kelowna, BC
V1V 1V7

Phone: 250.807.8044
Fax: 250.807.9900
E-mail: francisco.pena@ubc.ca

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Research Interests
Teaching Interests

• Spanish Film Series 2012 
• Spanish Program
• Medieval and Renaissance Studies
• Latin American Studies

 Francisco Peña completed his B.A. (“licenciatura”) in Ancient and Medieval History at the Universidad de Sevilla in 1994.   From there he began to focus his studies on the field of Comparative Religion, especially on the Bible as Literature and Hebrew legendary traditions. He started his graduate studies in 1995 at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.  In 2002 he completed a PhD in the Department of Hebrew and Aramaic Studies in the program of Comparative Religion at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid.  Since then he has been gradually directing his research interests towards the influence of the Bible on literature and towards tracing old Biblical Hebrew traditions in Medieval and Golden Age Spanish Literature. In 2008 Francisco Peña completed a second PhD in Medieval Spanish Literature at UC Davis under the supervision of Professor Samuel Armistead.  

Research Interests: Spanish Medieval and Golden Age Literature, Judeo-Spanish-Literature, Comparative Religion, and Bible and Literature

Recent Publications:  “La sangre que clama en silencio. Intertextualidad bíblica en el Libro de las Armas de don Juan Manuel”. Spain's Multicultural Legacies. Eds. Adrienne Martin and Cristina Martínez-Carazo,.Newark, Delaware: Juan de la Cuesta 2008: 215-238, 2009.
“Sancho Panza and the Mimesis of Solomon: Medieval Jewish Tradition in Don Quijote.” The Conversos in Spain and Beyond. Studies I. Ed. Kevin Ingram. Leiden: Brill, 2009.