Vincent Barletta

At Stanford University, Vincent Barletta is a published author and a tenured associate professor of comparative literature and Iberian and Latin American cultures. Additionally, he works as a research associate at the university's Europe Center and teaches as an adjunct professor for the Abbasi Program in Islamic Studies, the Center for African Studies, and the Center for Latin American Studies.

Iberian Islam, Portuguese literature, literature and linguistic anthropology, as well as literature and philosophy, are some of Barletta's main fields of study and research.

Barletta has authored a number of novels. Rhythm: Form and Dispossession, his most recent book (Chicago, 2020). The book explores rhythm in three historical eras, ranging from Ancient Greece to the present. Other books include Death in Babylon: Alexander the Great and the Iberian Empire in the Muslim Orient and Covert Gestures, Crypto-Islamic Literature as Cultural Practice in Early Modern Spain (Univ. of Minnesota, 2005). (Chicago, 2010). For Covert Gestures, he received the La Corónica Book Prize in 2007.