Nahir I. Otaño Gracia is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of New Mexico. Thanks to a Mellon Fellowship, she is currently a member at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, NJ. Her theoretical frameworks include translation theory and practice, the global North Atlantic (Britain, Iberia, and Scandinavia), and critical identity studies. Her current projects include a monograph entitled The Other Faces of Arthur: Medieval Arthurian Texts from the Global North Atlantic, and a co-edited volume entitled Women's Lives: Self-Representation, Reception, and Appropriation in the Middle Ages, which will be coming out early next year.

Nahir joins Chris and Suzanne to talk about women’s agency in Laxdæla Saga, about what reading the sagas in multiple languages and from a Puerto Rican perspective reveals about them, and about some other Icelandic sagas that translate the Arthurian legends.