Publications
In the Shadows of the Master: Al-Mutanabbi’s Legacy and the Quest for the Center in Fatimid and Andalusian Poetry. Berkshire: Berkshire Academic Press, 2012. 
Dictionary of Literary Biography: Twentieth-Century Arab Writers.  Edited by Majd Al-Mallah and Coeli Fitzpatrick. Detroit, Gale Group, 2009.

Research

• classical Arabic poetry
• Arabic women authors in al-Andalus
• modern Arabic fiction

Degrees
Ph.D., East Asian Languages and Civilizations (Chinese), 2016
Arizona State University-Tempe, School of International Letters and Cultures (SILC)
M.A., Chinese Literature, 2004
University of Wisconsin-Madison, Department of East Asian Languages and Literature
B.A. Honors, in Chinese Language and Literature, 1998
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

Research

• Pre-modern Chinese literature
• Tang-Song dynasty narrative literature, especially miscellany (biji)
• Identity building and social and familial networks among intellectuals in Southern Song transition period
• Readership and reception of miscellany in the Song dynasty

Degrees
Ph.D., French (2004)
University of Iowa
M.A., French (1993)
University of Iowa 
B.A., English/French (1989)
Central College

Research

• Seventeenth and Eighteenth-century French literature and culture, the Enlightenment and Counter-Enlightenment
• Metalexicography
• Game-based learning

Degrees
Ph.D., Spanish Literature (2015) 
Yale University
M.S., Library and Information Sciences (2009)
University of Illinois
B.A., Comparative and World Literature and Spanish with honors (2007)
University of Illinois

Publications

Monographs
Natural Designs: Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo and the Invention of New World Nature.
            University of Pennsylvania Press, 2023.

Articles
“Con la garganta abierta: La retórica en la lucha por la Amazonía en Un viejo que leía novelas de amor.” Revista Iberoamericana, Vol. LXXXV, No. 266, January-March 2019, pp. 153-166. 

“Framing the Indies: The Renaissance Aesthetics of Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo (1478-1557).” Colonial Latin American Review. Vol. 28, 2019, pp. 130-151.

 “‘Written in the Memory of the Living’: The Boundaries of History in Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo’s Sumario and Historia general.” Revista de Estudios Hispánicos. Vol. 53, No. 3, 2019, pp. 1015-1036.

“El agua y la inmortalidad poética en las églogas de Garcilaso de la Vega.” Hipogrifo. Vol. 8, No. 1, 2020, pp. 411-424.

Research

• New World natural histories
• Renaissance visual culture
• Early modern scientific culture

Degrees
Ph.D.
University of Michigan

Degrees
Ph.D. in Germanic Linguistics (2001)
University of Wisconsin - Madison

Research

• Interconnection of historical social interaction/change and language change in German
• Linguistics (any language): general linguistics, sociolinguistics, historical linguistics and historical sociolinguistics

Degrees
Ph.D., Japanese Literature
University of Michigan
M.A., Japanese Literature
University of Colorado
B.A., Japanese Language and Literature
B.A., Chinese Language and Literature
University of Colorado

Research

• Premodern Japanese poetry and poetic theory
• Premodern hybrid text/image works
• Traditional Japanese Theater
• Japanese humor
• Japanese folklore and the supernatural

Jason Yancey is a cofounder of the Dragoncillo Puppet Troupe, a director and translator of early modern Spanish theatre, and a Professor of Spanish at Grand Valley State University. He has more than 25 years of experience building and performing with puppets for diverse audiences in ways that blend language, literature, culture, and educational outreach. In 2024, his shadow puppet adaptation of Don Quixote (¡Quijóteres!) received the Walker Reid Comedia Production Prize from the Association for Hispanic Classical Theatre. He is also a recipient of GVSU’s Pew Excellence in Teaching Award (2015), and the Outstanding Community Service Award (2025).