Ryan Milov-Cordoba,
Office: Balch 211
Biography
The idea that storytelling can work as an agent of healing has encouraged human creativity and humanistic study for millennia. My research and writing explore this remarkable fact across languages, cultures, and time periods—in light of theories and testimonies both new and old.
From 2022-24, I conducted research in Morocco on a therapeutic oral storytelling tradition known as the "halqa." My public humanities projects, Ajnabi and Li Mura Lfna (forthcoming, Spring 2025) seek to harness the resources of comparative literary studies to open new spaces of cross-cultural dialogue between American and MENA cultures.
Academic History
PhD CUNY Graduate Center, Comparative Literature
MA CUNY Graduate Center, Comparative Literature
BA Amherst College, Classics and Interdisciplinary Studies
Academic Focus
I work in classical reception studies, especially the Greco-Arabic tradition and its afterlives. Broadly speaking, I am interested in theories of narrative medicine in the global history of ideas.
Classical Reception Studies | Greco-Arabic | Medical Humanities
Courses Taught
Intermediate Latin
Epic
Selected Research and Publications
Milov-Córdoba, Ryan. “Shahrazad’s Enormous Wings: A Parable of Reception,”Canadian Review of Comparative Literature / Revue Canadienne de Littérature Comparée 49, no. 1–2 (March 2022): 111–35
Awards and Honors
Fulbright (Morocco) | 2022
Lois Roth Foundation for Cross-Cultural Dialogue | 2022