Ross Brann is Milton R. Konvitz Professor of Judeo-Islamic Studies & Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow at Cornell University. Brann is the author or editor of books and essays on the intersection of Jewish and Islamic culture, including The Compunctious Poet: Cultural Ambiguity and Hebrew Poetry in Muslim Spain, Power in the Portrayal: Representations of Muslims and Jews in Eleventh- and Twelfth Century Islamic Spain, and Iberian Moorings: al-Andalus and Sefarad and the Tropes of Exceptionalism.
