Jason Busic
Associate Professor
Biography
Jason Busic joined the Department of Modern Languages in 2012 after teaching at St. Michael’s University, VT, from 2009-2012. Jason earned his doctorate from the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at The Ohio State University (2009) with concentrations in medieval and early modern Iberia and colonial Latin America. Prior to attending The Ohio State University, Jason completed his undergraduate and master’s degrees in Spanish from Ohio University. His research interests include folk narratives from Spain and Morocco, narrative theory, and religious and cultural contact in the Mediterranean. Jason enjoys teaching at all levels of the Spanish curriculum.
Degree(s)
M.A., Ohio University; Ph.D., Ohio State University
Learning & Teaching
Courses
- W 101, Writing Folklore (Fall 2022, Fall 2023, Fall 2026)
- SP 111, First Semester Spanish
- SP 112, Second Semester Spanish
- SP 211, Third Semester Spanish
- SP 215, Advanced Writing and Grammar
- SP 220, Introduction to Literary Analysis
- SP 230, Introduction to Hispanic Cultures
- DS 251: The Mediterranean, Sea of Encounter/Places of Encounter (with Dr. Tim Hofmeister) (Spring 2020 and Spring 2026)
- DS 251: Christian Communities, Arab Identity, and Islam (Spring 2024)
- SP 324: Al-Andalus and Its Diasporas (Taught under SPAN 377 in Fall 2024)
- SP 320: Survey of Spanish (Peninsular) Literature (Various Topics)
- SP 330: Survey in Peninsular Culture (Various Topics)
- SP 361/362: Directed Studies (Various Topics)
- SP 382: Oral Narrative and Storytelling
- SP 420: Seminar in Peninsular Literature (Various Topics)
- SP 430: Seminar in Peninsular Culture (Various Topics)
Research
Jason Busic studies medieval and early modern Iberia, al-Andalus, the Maghrib, and the Mediterranean. His publications explore the Christian-Arabic archive of al-Andalus and the western Islamic Mediterranean, as well as Arab folk narrative.
Works
Publications
- “Transcendence and Storytelling in Moroccan Folk Narrative: ‘Love Works Marvels’ (‘al-ḥubb yafʿal al-muʿjizāt’).” Fabula: Journal of Folklore Studies 67.3-4 (2026): 32-36.
- “Orality, Liturgy, and Transcendence in Ḥafṣ Ibn Albar’s Kitāb al-Zabūr (889 CE).” Religions, special issue of Multilingualism, Translation, and Religion in the Premodern Islamic World(s): Texts, Contexts, and Crossroads, edited by Hany Rashwan and Ross Brann, 17.5 (2026). https://doi.org/10.3390/rel17050541
- “A Clear Book, كتاب مبين: Translating the Psalms and Christian Identity into the Language of the Qurʾān in Ninth-Century Cordoba.” Iberian Babel: Translation and Multilingualism in the Medieval and the Early Modern Mediterranean. Ed. Michelle Hamilton and Nuria Silleras-Fernández. Leiden: Brill, 2022. 15-38.
- Yasmine Beale-Rivaya and Jason Busic, eds. Monographic Issue I. Places of Encounter: Language, Culture, and Religious Identity in Medieval Iberia. eHumanista 41 (2019)
- “Negotiating Language and Religion in Umayyad Córdoba: Ḥafṣ b. Albar al-Qūṭī’s Arabic Psalter.” Monographic Issue I. Places of Encounter: Language, Culture, and Religious Identity in Medieval Iberia. Ed. Yasmine Beale-Rivaya and Jason Busic. eHumanista 41 (2019): 19-39.
- “From Medieval to Early Modern, from Christian to Muslim: Difficult Boundaries in the Arabic Gospels and Paul’s Epistles of Biblioteca Nacional de España ms. 4971 (Sixteenth-Century Spain).” Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies 18.4 (2019): 26-50.
- “Between Latin Theology and Arabic Kalām: Samson’s Apologeticus contra perfidos (864 CE) and Ḥafṣ b. Albar al-Qūṭī’s Extant Works (fl. late ninth/early tenth centuries).” Medieval Encounters 25.5 (2019): 553-80.