Residential Doctoral Fellow
Susan Abraham is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese at the University of Virginia. She is a scholar of premodern Iberian and Mediterranean literature and culture, focusing on the textual production of exiled Moriscos--Muslims forcibly converted to Christianity--in Tunisia. Her dissertation, Narrating Faith Across the Straits: Morisco Manuals of Faith in Tunis and the Early Modern Mediterranean, examines how Moriscos creatively engaged with works from the North African Islamic tradition while strategically adapting literary forms and tropes rooted in Christian Europe to forge a narrative ethics reflecting their diaspora experience in the Mediterranean.