His research foregrounds medieval Spain as a site of simultaneous operation for Romance, Hebrew and Arabic literary cultures. His 2007 book Framing Iberia: Maqamat and Frametale Narratives in Medieval Spain (Brill, 2007), discusses portrayals of Christianity, Islam and Judaism in multi-language prose. His current study of Sephardic literature is titled Double Diaspora in Sephardic Literature (1200-1550). He blogs at http://davidwacks.uoregon.edu