Vincent Barletta is an author and tenured associate professor of Comparative Literature and Iberian and Latin American Cultures at Stanford University. He is also a research associate at the university's Europe Center and an associate faculty in the Center for African Studies, the Center for Latin American studies, and the Abbasi Program in Islamic Studies.

Barletta's primary areas of research and teaching include medieval and early modern Iberian literature, Iberian Islam, Portuguese literature, literature and linguistic anthropology, and literature and philosophy.

Barletta has written several books. His latest is Rhythm: Form and Dispossession (Chicago, 2020). The book discusses rhythm through three historical moments from Ancient Greece to present. Other books are Covert Gestures, Crypto-Islamic Literature as Cultural Practice in Early Modern Spain (Univ of Minnesota, 2005), and Death in Babylon: Alexander the Great and Iberian Empire in the Muslim Orient (Chicago, 2010). He won the La corónica book prize in 2007 for Covert Gestures. He is also the editor/translator of A Memorandum for the President of the Royal Audiencia and Chancery Court of the City and Kingdom of Granada (Chicago, 2007) by Francisco Núñez Muley and co-editor/translator (with Mark L. Bajus and Cici Malik) of Dreams of Waking: An Anthology of of Iberian Lyric Poetry, 1400-1700 (Chicago, 2013).

Vincent Barletta also has been a John Simon Guggenheim Fellow and a 2019-2020 recipient of the Kay Philips Award for Outstanding Adult Ally, Youth Community Service. He also has won numerous research and teaching collaboration grants.

Barletta has taught in Stanford’s Department of Comparative Literature since 2013 and the Department of Iberian and Latin American Cultures since 2007. He has also taught courses at Stanford for the Department of Religious Studies, the Program in Jewish Studies, the Program in African Studies, and the Department of Art History.

Before coming to Stanford University, Professor Barletta worked as an assistant professor at the University of Colorado at Boulder in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese from 2001-2006.

Outside of the academic environment, Barletta travels, spends every minute he can with his family, and writes fiction.