Publications and Conference Presentations

Edited Books & Special Journal Issues

  • 2018 Beale-Rivaya, Y. & Jason Busic. A Companion to Medieval Toledo: Reconsidering the Canons. Brill. Netherlands. 2018.
  • 2019 Busic, Jason & Yasmine Beale-Rivaya. “Places of Encounter: Language, Culture, and Religious Identity in Medieval Iberia” E-Humanista. Volume 41 (June 2019). Monographic Issue
  • 2018 Beale-Rivaya, Y. & Antonio Gragera. “Español en Estados Unidos.” Revista Iberoamericana de Lingüística. 13 (December-2018). Special themed issue. December.

Chapters in Books & Journal Articles:

  • 2022    Beale-Rivaya, Yasmine, “Tracing New Frontiers: Mozárabes and Toledanos as Villains” in The Construction of the Spanish Cultural Imaginary (Archbishop Rodrigo Jiménez de Rada 1209-1247 AD),” Charles Burnett & Pedro Mantas-España (eds.), Mark of Toledo. Intellectual Context and Debates between Christians and Muslims in Early Thirteenth Century Iberia, Córdoba: UCOPress – CNERU – The Warburg Institute, Feb. 2022.
  • 2022      “Reenacting historical multilingualism in contemporary Spain.” Multilingual practices from antiquity to the present day. Eds. Aneta Pavlenko & Pia Lane. Forthcoming.2022.
  • 2021    “The Burden of the Body in Miracle IV: El galardón de la virgen, and Miracle XVII:  La iglesia de la Ggoriosa profanada.” Maria Mediatrix: Gonzalo de Berceo’s Milagros de Nuestra Señora. Eds. Paul Nelson and Paul Larson. In press
  • 2021      Moreno-McMahon, Cecilia & Yasmine Beale-Rivaya, “Pitfalls in Machine Translation: A Study on Web-Based News Articles/ Trampas en la traducción automática: Un estudio basado en textos periodísticos en línea.” Revista Iberoamericana de Lingüística. (Forthcoming – December issue).
  • 2018      “Introduction.” A Companion to Medieval Toledo: Reconsidering the Canons. eds. Yasmine Beale-Rivaya & Jason Busic. Brill. (2018). 1-14.
  • 2018      “Epilogue.” A Companion to Medieval Toledo: Reconsidering the Canons. New Readings of Medieval Toledo (ca. 711-1517). Eds. Yasmine Beale-Rivaya & Jason Busic. Brill. (2018). 281-288.
  • 2018       “Shared Legal Spaces in the Arabic Language Notarial Documents of Toledo.” A Companion to Medieval Toledo: Reconsidering the Canons. Eds. Yasmine Beale-Rivaya & Jason Busic. Brill. (2018). 221-237.
  • 2017       & Allison Yakel. “Saving Spanish: Literacy and Spanish Language Maintenance in Central Texas.” Estudios Coloniales e Iberoamericanos. Homenaje a Claudia Parodi. Ed. Angela Helmer. Iberoameriana Vervuet. Madrid. (2017). 245-272.
  • 2016     “At the Crossroads of Languages: The Linguistics Choices along Border Communities of the Reconquista in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries.” Multilingualism in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Age: Communication and Miscommunication in the Premodern World. Ed. Albrecht Classen & Marilyn Sandige. De Gruyter. (2016). 127-144.
  • 2014     “Ethnic and Linguistic pluralisms in the Arabic Documents of the Cathedral of Huesca in Aragón.”Revisiting Convivencia in Medieval and Early Modern Iberia. Ed. Connie Scarborough. Juan de la Cuesta. (2014): 387-404. R.
  • 2013     “Illness and Disability in Twelfth and Thirteenth-Century Notarial Documents in Medieval Toledo.” E-humanista Vol. 23. 2013. pp 371-388.
  • 2012     “The Written Record as Witness: Language Shift from Arabic to Romance in the Documents of the Mozarabs of Toledo in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries.” La Corónica 40.2 (Spring 2012): 27-50.
  • 2011      “Maintaining a Language of Culture: Medieval Iberian Languages as a model for Spanish in the United States.” American Speech 86.4 (Winter 2011): 415-440.
  • 2010     “The History and Evolution of the Term ‘Mozarab’.” Imago Temporis 4.2 (2010): 51-72.
  • 2010      “On the Relationship Between Mozarabic Sibilants and Andalusian Seseo.” e-Humanista 14 (2010): 40-62. R. acceptance rate: around 35%; source MLA

Reviews:

  • Sonia and Cynthia Kauffeld (eds.). Studies in Hispano-Romance Historical Linguistics and Lexicography: A Tribute to John J. Nitti. Kania, , Hispanic Seminary of Medieval Studies, 2020. La Corónica. Forthcoming.
  • Yakov Malkiel. Menéndez Pidal y la lingüística. Nota preliminar de Francisco Rico. Prólogos de Charles B. Faulhaber y Steven N. Dworkin. Índices de Miguel Requena, al cuidado de Rosa Bono. La Corónica 2. Spring 2021.
  • De Toledo a Córdoba: Tathlīth al-Waḥdāniyyah (´La Trinidad de la Unidad´) Fragmentos teológicos de un judeoconverso arabizado. Monferrer-Sala, Pedro and Pedro Mantas-España., Revista Española de Filosofía Medieval 27/2 (2020), ISSN: 1133-0902. pp. 167-168.
  •  Text, Transmission, and Transformation in the European Middle Ages, 1000–1500. Carrie Griffin, Emer Purcell (eds.), Revista Española de Filosofía Medieval 27/1 (2020), ISSN: 1133-0902, pp. 184-185.
  • To Live like a Moor: Christian Perceptions of Muslim Identity in Medieval and Early Modern Spain. Olivia Remie Constable. Ed. Robin Rose. La Corónica 47, 2 (2019): 111-114.
  • Langues médiévales ibériques: Domaines espagnol et portugais. Ed. Stephane Boisselier, Bernard Darbord, Denis Menjot. Speculum, 89/3 (July 2014): 745-746.
  • Colors Between Two Worlds: The Florentine Codex of Bernardino de Sahagún ed. by Gerhard Wolf and Joseph Connors. Comitatus 44 (2013): 246-248.
  • Words in Dictionaries and History : Essays in Honour of R.W. McConchie. Ed. Olga Timofeeva and Tanja Saily. Comitatus 43 (2012): 302-303.
  •  Aillet, Cyrille, Mayte Penelas, Philippe Roisse. ¿Existe una identidad mozárabe? Historia, lengua y cultura de los cristianos de al-Andalus (siglos IX-XII). La Corónica 38.2 (2010): 216-220.
  •  L. P. Harvey. Muslims in Spain, 1500 to 1614. Comitatus 38 (2007): 233-234.
  • John Michael Archer. Old Worlds: Egypt, Southwest, Asia, India, and Russia in Early Modern English Writing. Comitatus 34 (2003): 199-201.

Invited Talks, Lectures, and Presentations:

  • “En sus propias palabras: Lo que los documentos en árabe-andalusí revelan de la vida en las tierras fronterizas de Toledo tras su ´reconquista´.” CSIC. Madrid. July 2019.
  •  “Shuffling Between Languages in Medieval Iberia:
    The Mozarabs (Arabized-Christians).” Plenary. University of Olso, Norway and the Research Council of Norway as a Center of Excellence. April 2019.
  • “Inter-Textuality and Inter-Lingualism in Medieval Iberia: The Mozarabs as an Exemplary Case Study.” Dennison University. Ohio. February 2019.
    2017
  • “Evolving Perspectives on the Fiestas de Moros y Cristianos.” Texas Tech University. October 2017.

Conference Presentations (selected):

  •  “Construyendo un recurso colaborativo para un equipo de investigación: Zotero y la General Historia” Confluence of Religious Cultures and Translation. Logroño, Spain. October 27, 2021.
  • “Los mozárabes: herramienta para forjar una nación” TEMA, Rice University. October 16, 2021.
  •  “No Man is an Island: Alfonso X´s Models and Heritage” TEMA, Rice University. Houston. October 15, 2021.
  •  “The language of Justice in The Burden of the Body in Miracle IV “El galardón de la Virgen” and Miracle XVII “La iglesia de la gloriosa profanada” SCMLA, Houston. October 9, 2021.
  • “Asimetrías mozárabes: Voces de Toledo frente a silencios de Córdoba” Primeras jornadas de Estudios de Medio Oriente en la FES-Acatlán, UNAM. January 2021.
  •  “Borderland Experiences: Strategies of Survival and Adaptation by the Mozarabs in Toledo Post-1085” XXVI CILH-Congreso Internacional de Estudios y Literatura Hipánicos. Online. June 2020.
  • “Manipulating Language Along the Christian-Muslim Borderlands of Medieval Iberia.” Medieval Institute International Conference. Kalamazoo. May 2020. Cancelled due to Covid19.
  •  “From Jiménez de Rada to Cisneros: Defining and Re-purposing the Mozarabs.” Medieval Toledo Conference. June 2, 2019.
  •  “Tracing Evidence of the Mozarabs in Toledo.” Medieval Institute Conference. Kalamazoo. May 10, 2019.
  •  “Evidence of the Mozarabs in the Alfonsine Papers.” Texas Medieval Association. Waco. October 2018.
  •  “Fabricating Old Etymologies while Crossing Oceans and Encountering New Languages in the Recopilación de algunos nombres arábigos by Diego de Guadix”. AATSP. Salamanca. June 2018.
  •  “Mapping Medieval Toledo Through the ‘Mozarabic’ Documents of Toledo”. Medieval Institute. Kalamazoo. May 2018.
  •  “Celebraciones populares y la creación de un mito. Usos y desusos de lo medieval y las ´Fiestas de moros y cristianos´. Universidad de Soria. May 2017.
  •  “Christian-Muslim Trade Along the Andalusí Frontier” Medieval Institute. Kalamazoo. May 2016.
  •  “The Signatures in the Mozarabic Documents in 12th -13th Century Toledo” International Medieval Congress. Leeds. July 2016.
  • “Slavery along the Christian-Andalusí borderlands.” Medieval Institute Conference. Kalamazoo. May 2015.
  • “Mozarabic Women.” Medieval Institute. Kalamazoo. May 2014.
  •  “At the Crossroads of Languages: Shifting from Arabic to Romance in Twelfth-Century Toledo and Huesca.” Medieval Institute. Kalamazoo. May 2013.
  •  “Transferring Faiths: Slavery, Captivity, and Rescue among the Mozarabs of Toledo.” Texas Medieval Association, Houston, October 2012.
  • “Reaching Through the Lens: Uncovering Imagined History in the Dictionary of Diego de Guadix.” Pacific Asian Modern Language Association, Pomona, November 2011.

Translations of creative literary works:

  • Beale-Rivaya, Yasmine, “Cuatro Caminos.” Generación Subway 4.Eds. Noemí Trujillo and Lorenzo Silva. Playa de Ákaba. (2016).
  • Beale-Rivaya, Yasmine, “La historia olvidada de Carboneras.” Donde el mar se hace carbón y otros relatos de Carboneras. Ed. Mario Sanz Cruz. Playa de Ákaba. (2015).
  • Beale-Rivaya, Yasmine, “Primeros pasos para convertirme en Productor de cine.” Generación Subway 1. Eds. Noemí Trujillo and Lorenzo Silva. Playa de Ákaba. (2015).
  • Beale-Rivaya, Yasmine, “Aún el paraíso necesita agua” Generación Subway: Relato Breve. Eds. Noemí Trujillo and Lorenzo Silva. Playa de Ákaba. (2015): 79-86.
  • Beale-Rivaya, Yasmine, “Las Navidades de Abuela Edith.” Generación Subway: Cuentos de Navidad. Eds. Noemí Trujillo and Lorenzo Silva. Playa de Ákaba. (2015): 51-66