Contributors

CONTRIBUTORS CALÍOPE Vol. 8, No. 2 (2002): pages 121-122 Antonio Carreño, from Spain, received his Ph.D. from Yale University and taught at Yale, Columbia, and the University of Illinois before moving to Brown University, where he holds the W. Duncan MacMillan Family Professorship in the Humanities. Aspecialist in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spanish literature, with an emphasis on Golden Age poetry and the comedia, Professor Carreño has published extensively in this field and on contemporary Spanish poetry: La dialéctica de la identidad en la poesía contemporánea, El romancero lírico de Lope de Vega, as well as editions of many Golden Age works and over 80 essays. Professor Carreño has received numerous fellowships (Guggenheim, Fulbright, National Endowment for the Humanities, American Council of Learned Societies, American Philosophical Society), as well as awards and recognitions: The Ramón Menéndez Pidal Prize by the Spanish Royal academy and the Encomienda de la Orden Isabel la Católica, which was conferred in 1998 by the King of Spain. Professor Carreño has served as President of the International Association of Galician Studies, and as Treasurer and Vice-President of the Asociación Internacional de Hispanistas. He was Chairman of the Department of Hispanic Studies at Brown for six years. Margit Frenk, nacida en Hamburgo,Alemania, ha vivido desde pequeña en la ciudad de México. Hizo sus estudios en la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, la Universidad de California, Berkeley, y El Colegio de México, donde obtuvo el doctorado. Actualmente es profesora-investigadora en la Facultad de Filosfía y Letras de la UNAM. Es miembro de la Academia Mexicana de la Lengua; ha recibido, entre otras distinciones, un doctorado honoris causa de la Sorbona, el Premio Universidad Nacional y el Premio Nacional de Ciencias y Artes que otorga el gobierno mexicano. Es autora de más de 140 artículos, ponencias y reseñas en publicaciones especializadas, y de 16 libros (publicados en México y España), entre los cuales destacan Las jarchas mozárabes y los comienzos de las literaturas románicas, Entre folklore y literatura, los Estudios sobre lírica antigua, Entre la voz y el silencio (la lectura en tiempos de Cervantes), y sobre todo el Nuevo corpus de la antigua lírica popular (siglos XV a XVII), recientemente publicado en México. Geoffrey Parker was born in Nottingham, England, and holds BA, MA, Ph.D. and Litt.D. degrees from Cambridge University. He is Andreas Dorpalen Professor of History at The Ohio State University. His biography, Philip II (1978), is now in its fourth Contributors D 122 edition (Chicago, 2000) with translations into Spanish (multiple editions since 1984), Czech, Dutch, Italian, and Polish; and The Grand Strategy of Philip II (Yale UP, 1998; PB, 2000) won the Samuel Eliot Morison Prize from the Society of Military History. His other books include: The Army of Flanders and the Spanish Road: The Logistics of Spanish Victory and Defeat in the Low Countries Wars, 1567-1659 (Cambridge, 1972; 3rd ed. 2000); The Dutch Revolt (revised edition, New York, 1984); The Spanish Armada (with Colin Martin, revised and expanded edition, Manchester, 1999); and two collections of essays: Spain and the Netherlands, 1559-1659. Ten Studies (revised edition, London, 1990); and Success is Never Final: Empire, War and Faith in Early Modern Europe (New York: Basic Books, 2002). All have been translated into Spanish. In total, he has written, edited or co-edited 30 books and published 80 articles and 170 book reviews. He has also presented more than 200 lectures at universities and conferences in America (North and South), Europe and Japan. In 1992 the King of Spain made him a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Isabella the Catholic in recognition of his work on Spanish history. Lía Schwartz, Distinguished Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature, and Executive Officer of the Ph.D. Program in Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literatures at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, specializes in Renaissance and Baroque poetry and satire, and their classical contexts. She has published numerous articles, reviews, and review-articles on Renaissance...