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Suzanne Conklin Akbari

Suzanne Conklin Akbari is Professor of Medieval Studies in the School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. 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). Among her edited volumes are Marco Polo and the Encounter of East and West (2008), co-edited with Amilcare Iannucci, and the Oxford Handbook to Chaucer (2020).