Department of Spanish and Portuguese

Jorge Santander is a Ph.D. candidate specializing in medieval Iberian texts. His research focuses on the virtues attributed to precious stones in medieval lapidaries and other medieval Iberian literary texts. He is interested in learning what the representation of precious stones and their properties can tell us about the intercultural exchange taking place in the Iberian peninsula during this period. Jorge earned a B.A. in Journalism from the Universidad de Palermo in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and an M.A. in Spanish & Latin American literature from New York University. Originally from Argentina, Jorge has lived in Venezuela, Singapore, Egypt and Morocco, and has taught Spanish in the United States and Spain.