Contributors

CONTRIBUTORS Rodrigo Cacho Casal is Assistant Professor at the University of British Columbia. He has also had appointments at the Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, where he obtained his Ph.D., and at the University of St Andrews. His main interests are cultural and literary relations between Spain and Italy during the Renaissance and Baroque periods, the works of Francisco de Quevedo, and literary genres such as satire and burlesque. He has published two books on the Italian models of Quevedo: Dante y Quevedo: la Divina commedia en los Sueños (U of Manchester, 2003), and La poesía burlesca de Quevedo y sus modelos italianos (U of Santiago, 2003). The latter was awarded the Premio de Investigación Filológica Dámaso Alonso in 2003. Anthony Close, formerly Reader in Spanish at the University of Cambridge, now retired, is author of The Romantic Approach to Don Quixote (Cambridge UP, 1978), and Cervantes and the Comic Mind of the Age (Oxford UP, 2000), as well as of abut 50 articles on Cervantes, the Spanish GoldenAge, literary theory, and the history of ideas. An executive member of AISO and AHBBI, a member of various editorial boards, and a frequent attendee at international conferences—much more frequent than is good for his mental health. He is married with one daughter and two children by a previous marriage. His favourite pastime is now a Voltairean cultivation of his own garden in a village near Cambridge. David H. Darst (Ph.D. University of Kentucky) is Professor of Spanish Literature at Florida State University. He has published over 40 articles and 5 books of criticism on Golden Age prose, poetry, theater, and literary theory; and is the author of the intermediate literature text Sendas literarias: España (McGraw-Hill). His most recent volume of research is Converting Fiction: Counter Reformational Closure in the Secular Literature of Golden Age Spain (North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatures, 259). Rafael Iglesias, from Madrid, is Associate Professor of Spanish at Benedictine University (Lisle, Illinois). In the past five years he has published in Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes a number of critical editions of Spanish literary works from the early seventeenth century. In addition, he has written a series of articles about Spanish “relaciones de sucesos,” as well as on Francisco de Quevedo’s theater. His research interests include: seventeenthCAL ÍOPE Vol. 10, Number 2 (2004): pages 124-125 CONTRIBUTORS D D D D D 125 century Spanish poetry, drama, and prose; “relaciones de sucesos” and their impact on Spanish Golden Age literature; literature and propaganda during the Golden Age; Anglo-Spanish diplomatic relationships during the early seventeenth century; contemporary Spanish culture; seventeenth-century travel literature; Spain’s perception of other countries during the Golden Age; and Spain as seen by her enemies during the Golden Age. Vicente Lledó-Guillem (ABD, U of California-Berkeley) has published “On the Political Linguistic Situation of Castilian and Catalán in 16th-Century Spain: Nebrija’s Legacy in the Works of Juan de Valdés and Cristòfor Despuig” (Romanistisches Jahrbuch 55 [2004]), “El rechazo del Neoplatonismo en Ausiàs March” (Neophilologus [2003]), and “Lo sublime y la discontinuidad en Las Moradas de Santa Teresa” (Hispanófila [2003]). ...