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Kevin R. Poole (1977- ) is an Associate Professor of Humanities at the Pontifical College Josephinum in Columbus, Ohio, whose area of teaching and research focus on medieval Spain. He completed a B.A. in foreign language education at the University of Kentucky in 1999, followed by an M.A. in Spanish in 2001. He completed his Ph.D. in Spanish and Portuguese at The Ohio State University in 2006, where he wrote a dissertation entitled "Narrating Apocalypse: Image and Narration in the Tenth-Century Gerona Beatus Commentary on the Apocalypse" with Professor Vicente Cantarino. Before the Josephinum, Poole taught at Clemson University and at Yale University, where he won the distinguished Sarai Ribicoff Award for Teaching Excellence.

Kevin Poole's research has focused primarily on the role of Christian theology and church history in medieval Spanish literature and on medieval apocalypse studies in general. The following is a list of his published work:

The Chronicle of Pseudo-Turpin. Translation and Edition of Book IV of the 12th-century Codex Calixtinus. New York: Italica Press, 2014.

"The Western Apocalypse Commentary Tradition in the Early Middle Ages". A Companion to the Premodern Apocalypse. Michael A. Ryan, ed. Leiden: Brill, 2016; 103-143.

"On the Figure of Voxmea in Gonzalo de Berceo's Poema de Santa Oria." Modern Philology 110 (2013): 289-312.

"Berceo's Sacrificio de la misa: First Spanish Liturgical Textbook." Hispania 94 (2011): 74-85.

"Juan Ruiz's Lenten Dream of Gluttony: Don Carnal, Doña Quaresma, and Oneiric Structure in the Libro de buen amor." Comitatus 40 (2009): 123-151.

"Beatus of Liébana: Medieval Spain and the Othering of Islam." End of Days: Understanding the Apocalypse from Antiquity to Modernity. Michael A. Ryan and Karolyn Kinane, eds. Jefferson: McFarland, 2009; 47-66.

"In Search of Paradise: Time and Eternity in Alfonso X's Cantiga 103." eHumanista 9 (2007): 110-129.

He also contributed to the 2010 Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages and has written numerous book reviews for academic journals worldwide.