Suzanne Conklin Akbari

Suzanne Conklin Akbari (University of Toronto) Her books include Seeing Through the Veil: Optical Theory and Medieval Allegory (2004) and Idols in the East: European Representations of Islam and the Orient, 1100–1450 (2009), and the forthcoming Oxford Handbook to Chaucer. Among her edited volumes is Marco Polo and the Encounter of East and West (2008), co-edited with Amilcare Iannucci.