Department Affiliations

• Spanish & Portuguese
• Cultural Studies & Comparative Literature

Specialties

• comparative literature
• colonial Spanish-American literautre
• Cervantes' novel and theater
• early modern Spanish literature and culture
• postcolonial theory
• sociohistorical approaches

Educational Background

• Ph.D., New York University, 1971
• M.A., New York University at Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain, 1964
• B.A., St. Francis College, NY, 1963

Publications

• La vida y hechos de Estebanillo González, hombre de buen humor, 2 vols. (Co-editor) Madrid: Castalia, 1978. 867 pp. [Clásicos Castalia Series, Vols. 86, 87].
  
• Los entremeses de Miguel de Cervantes. Madrid: Cátedra, 1982. 275 pp. [Letras Hispánicas Series, Vol. 162].
  
• Literature Among Discourses: The Spanish Golden Age. (Co-editor) Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1986.
  
• El rufián dichoso /Pedro de Urdemalas. (Co-editor) Madrid: Cátedra, 1986. 392 pp. [Letras Hispánicas Series]
  
• The Institutionalization of Literature in Spain. (Co-editor) Minneapolis: Prisma, 1987. 275 pp. [Hispanic Issues Series 1]
  
• La crisis de la institución literaria en el siglo XIX. (Co-editor) Valencia, Eutopías, 1987. 196 pp.
  
• Autobiography in Early Modern Spain. (Co-editor) Minneapolis: Prisma, 1988. 294 pp. [Hispanic Issues Series 2]
• The Crisis of Institutionalized Literature in Spain. (Co-editor) Minneapolis: Prisma, 1988. 374 pp. 
• 1492-1992: Re/Discovering Colonial Writing. (Co-editor) Minneapolis: Prisma, 1989. 475 pp. [Hispanic Issues Series 4]; rpt Univ. of Minnesota Press, 1991.
• Cervantes' Exemplary Novels and the Adventure of Writing. (Co-Editor) Minneapolis: Prisma, 1990. 380 pp.
• The Politics of Editing. (Co-Editor) Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1992. 190 pp.
• Amerindian Images and the Legacy of Columbus. (Co-Editor) Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1992. 750 pp. 
• Through the Shattering Glass. Cervantes and the Self-made World. (Co-author) Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1993. 224 pp.
  
• Rhetoric and Politics. Baltasar Gracián and the New World Order. (Co- editor) Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press, 1997.
  
• What is the Color of a Princess.  Edition/translation  of Jenaro Talens'   De qué color son  las princesas . Minneapolis: Studia Hispánica, 1999. 153pp.
  
• Libertad y límite. El barroco  hispánico  (Co-author). Madrid:  Ediciones del Orto, 2004. 
• Hispanic Baroques. Reading Cultures in Context (co-editor). Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 2005. 322pp.

Professional Activities

• Editor in Chief, Hispanic Issues: 1987-present
• General Editor, Hispanic Issues On Line, 2006-
• Director of Graduate Studies, 1986-1989; 1996-1997; 2001-2003
• Department Chair, 1978-1981
• Associate Chair, 1989-1990
• Acting Chair, June-December 1990
• Director of Undergraduate Studies, 1973-75

Courses Taught

• Span 8900 - Spanish Seminar
• Spanish and Spanish-American Baroque (Containment and Freedom)
• Topics
• Cervantes and the Novel
• Discourses of Imperial Spain
• Colonial Writing
• Cervantes and the Comedia