Contributors

C O N T R I B U T O R S Frederick A. de Armas is Professor of Romance Languages and Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities at the University of Chicago. He has taught at Louisiana State University.and Pennsylvania State University. He has been Visiting Professor at Duke University and the University of Missouri. His books and edited volumes focus on the literature of the Spanish Golden Age, often from a comparative perspective. They include: The Invisible Mistress : Aspects of Feminism and Fantasy in the Golden Age; The Return of Astrea: An Astral-Imperial Myth in Calderon; The Prince and the Tower: Perceptions of'La vida es sueno'; Heavenly Bodies: The Realms of Ta estrella de Sevilla'; A Star-Crossed Golden Age: Myth and the Spanish Comedia; and Cervantes, Raphael, and the Classics (Cambridge UP). He has co-edited European Literary Careers: The Author from Antiquity to the Renaissance (U of Toronto P, forthcoming). Mary E. Barnard is Associate Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature at Pennsylvania State University. She is the author of The Myth of Apollo and Daphne from Ovid to Quevedo: Love, Agon, and the Grotesque (Duke UP), and has published essays on Golden Age lyric poetry in PMLA, Hispanic Review, Romanic Review, Revista de Estudios Hispdnicos, and others. Her book, Myth and Melancholia : Crafting the Subject in Garcilaso's Love Poetry, is under consideration . She is currently writing a book on how classical myth is used to explore psychological, cultural, and rhetorical issues in the works of seven early modern poets. The essay that appears here will be part of this book. Marsha S. Collins is Professor of Spanish at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is the author of The 'Soledades': Gongora's Masque of the Imagination (U of Missouri P), a book on Pio Baroja (Tamesis), and articles on Cervantes, Lope, G6ngora, Galdos, and Unamuno, among others. Her current research focuses on different visions of Arcadia in Renaissance literature and the visual arts. Laura Dolfi is Professor of Spanish at the Faculta de Lettere e Filosofia at the University of Parma. She has published extensively on Golden Age theater (Luis de G6ngora and Tirso de Molina) and on twentieth -century poetry and theater (Federico Garcia Lorca, Jorge Guillen, Juan Larrea, Angel Crespo; Alfonso Sastre, Gregorio Martinez Sierra). Her work on Gongora's theater includes the critical edition of Lasfirmezas de Isabela (Pisa: Cursi, 1983) and the Teatro CALfOPE Vol. 8, No. 1 (2002): pages 185-187 186 BO Contributors completo (Catedra, 1993), in addition to numerous articles. She has edited Tirso de Molina's Por el sotano y el torno and El burlador de Sevilla. A member of the advisory boards for Edad de Oro and the Instituto de Estudios Tirsianos, she has organized several international conferences and has served as president of the Asociacion de Hispanistas Italianos. Edward H. Friedman is Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature at Vanderbilt University. His research has centered on Cervantes, the picaresque, the comedia, and other areas of early modern Spanish literature. He recently published an adaptation of Lope de Vega's La dama boba, entitled Wit's End. Currently he serves as Editor of the Bulletin of the Comediantes and President of the Cervantes Society of America. Carroll B. Johnson is Professor of Spanish at UCLA. Among his publications are: Matias de los Reyes and the Craft of Fiction (1973); Inside Guzman de Alfarache (1978); Madness and Lust: A Psychoanalytical Approach to Don Quixote (1983); Don Quixote. The Questfor Modern Fiction (1990); Cervantes and the Material World (2000). He has written on Garcilaso in Romanic Review (1989) and on G6ngora in Indiana Journal of Hispanic Literatures (1992). He is presently working on the invention of the novel in Spain. Adrienne Martin is Associate Professor of Spanish literature at the University of California, Davis. She is the author of Cervantes and the Burlesque Sonnet (U of California P) and numerous articles on aspects of Golden Age poetry, prose, and theater. Her most recent scholarship focuses on issues of sexuality, eroticism, and deviance in early modern Spanish literature. Maria Cristina Quintero is Professor of Spanish at Bryn Mawr College. She is...