About the Author
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Carmelo Virgillo (Ph.D , Indiana University,
Bloomington) is Professor Emeritus of Romance Languages at
Arizona State University, Tempe, where he taught Spanish,
Portuguese, and Italian at the undergraduate and graduate levels
from 1965 to 1993. In addition to serving as coordinator of
Portuguese and Hispanic literature, he directed Arizona State
University's programs in Florence and Siena, Italy (1982 and
1990). He was also book review editor of the Latin American
Digest. His publications include Correspondência de Machado de
Assis com Magalhães de Azeredo (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: Instituto
Nacional do Livro Ministério da Educação y Cultura, 1969), Woman
as Myth and Metaphor in Latin American Literature with Naomi E.
Lindstrom (Columbus University of Missouri Press, 1985), and
Blbliografía analítico-descritiva de Henriqueta Lisboa (Rio de
Janeiro: José Olympia Editora, 1992). He also authored and
co-authored numerous articles and essays on nineteenth- and
twentieth-century Spanish, Spanish-American, and Brazilian
literature. In addition, he was a contributor to the Suplemento
literário do Minas Gerais (Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil). The
recipient of several nominations for excellence in teaching, he
has been cited by the Italian Ministry of Education for his
career-long development of and contributions to the promotion of
Italian studies in the United States. He is currently researching
a new book on Hispanic civilization.
L. Teresa Valdivieso (Ph.D. 1975) is Professor Emerita of Spanish
at Arizona State University. In her many years at Arizona State,
she has been Director of Graduate Studies, Coordinator of the
Spanish Section, Director of the Center for Latin American
Studies, Chair of the Arizona State University Education Abroad
Committee, organizer and chair of the Undergraduate Committee,
member of the Dean’s Faculty Advisory Council, and of the
Language Articulation Task Force. She also was Visiting Professor
at Middlebury College, Lecturer at the Universidad Autónoma de
Guadalajara (Mexico) and the Universitat de Barcelona (Spain).
She is the author of España: Bibliografía de un teatro
silenciado, Negocios y comunicaciones, and co-author of Studia
Hispanica Medievalia, La mujer hispana en el mundo: sus triunfos
y sus retos, Voces y textos literarios del Ecuador, and most
recently Presencia de la mujer hispana (2004), and Madrid en la
literatura y las artes (2006). She is a founding-member and past
president of the Asociación de Literatura Femenina Hispánica,
vice-president of the Asociación Hispánica de Humanidades, senior
bibliographer of the Modern Language Association, and recently
elected vice-president of Spanish Professionals in America. She
continues to teach at Arizona State University. In 1980 she was
the recipient of the Dean’s Award for excellence in teaching; in
2002 she received the Outstanding Faculty Committee to Teaching
and Learning Award, and in 2007 has been awarded the title of
Honors Disciplinary Faculty.
Edward H. Friedman (Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University) is
Chancellor’s Professor of Spanish and Professor of Comparative
Literature at Vanderbilt University. His primary field of
research is early modern Spanish literature, with special
emphasis on picaresque narrative, the writings of Cervantes, and
the Comedia. He also has worked widely in contemporary narrative
and drama. His books include Cervantes in the Middle: Realism and
Reality in the Spanish Novel (2006), The Unifying Concept:
Approaches to the Structure of Cervantes Comedias, The
Antiheroine’s Voice: Narrative Discourse and Transformations of
the Picaresque, Wit’s End: An Adaptation of Lope de Vega’s La
dama boba (performed by Vanderbilt University Theatre as part of
its 2006-2007 season). He has received grants from the National
Endowment for the Humanities, the Fulbright Scholar Program, and
the National Humanities Center. He is editor of the Bulletin of
the Comediantes and has served as president of the Cervantes
Society of America. Nominated by Brigham Young University, he was
selected for the Sigma Delta Pi "Orden de Don Quijote" Award in
2005. The recipient of teaching awards at Arizona State
University and Indiana University, he was presented the Jeffrey
Nordhaus Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching at
Vanderbilt in 2006.
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