Associate Professor

Medieval Studies

British, Irish, and Global Literary Studies

Research Areas

Medieval Studies; Global North Atlantic; Critical Identity Studies; Caribbean Medievalism; Old Irish; Old French; Castilian and Catalan; Middle English; Translation theory and practice

Contact Information

Email: nahir@unm.edu 
Office Location: PAIS 1424

Biography 

Nahir I. Otaño Gracia is an Associate Professor of Medieval Studies and British, Irish, and Global Literary Studies whose theoretical frameworks include translation theory and practice, Critical Identity Studies, and the Global North Atlantic—extending the North Atlantic into the Mediterranean. Her book, The Other Faces of Arthur: Chivalric Whiteness in the Global North Atlantic (RaceB4Race Series at Penn Press 2025), reveals the role of Arthuriana in the racial logics of medieval Europe through an analysis of the construction of chivalric whiteness. She is a proud member of United Academics of the University of New Mexico (UA-UNM).

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