Vincent Barletta is a writer and tenured Stanford University associate professor of Comparative Literature and Iberian and Latin American Cultures. He is also an associate faculty member of the Center for African Studies, the Center for Latin American Studies, and the Abbasi Program in Islamic Studies, as well as a research associate at the university's Europe Center.
Barletta's principal research and teaching interests are medieval and early modern Iberian literature, Iberian Islam, Portuguese literature, literature and linguistic anthropology, as well as literature and philosophy.
