Simone Pinet wins Guggenheim fellowship

Simone Pinet, associate professor of Spanish in the Department of Romance Studies, has been awarded a Latin American and Caribbean Fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.

Pinet will use the award to conduct archival research and write part of a book on "Libro de Alexandre," the medieval Spanish poem about Alexander the Great. The project "delves into cartographic culture and the rhetorical engagement with visual maps and geographic discourse in 12th- and 13th-century learned vernacular literatures in Iberia," according to Pinet.

Pinet also has an appointment in Cornell’s Program in Medieval Studies. Her other scholarly interests include books of chivalry in medieval Spanish literature, Golden Age poetics and theories of space. She is one of 37 artists, scholars and scientists named in 2010 as Latin American and Caribbean fellows, chosen from a field of almost 500 applicants. The fellowships assist research and artistic creation; honorees are selected on the basis of achievement and exceptional promise.