Hispanic Baroques: Reading Cultures in Context

Contributors

307  Contributors David R. Castillo is Associate Professor of Spanish at the University at Buffalo. He is the author of (A)Wry Views: Anamorphosis, Cervantes, and the Early Picaresque. He has also written articles on Baltasar Gracián, Miguel de Cervantes, Renaissance and baroque Spanish narrative and theater, questions of nation-building, identity formation and cultural theory. At the present time he is working on a book project tentatively titled “Baroque Gallery of Horrors and Curiosities” and an edited volume on the topic of “Reason and Its Others in Early Modernity.” William Egginton is Associate Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and Comparative Literature at the University at Buffalo, and teaches courses in literary history, literary theory, and philosophy. He is author of How the World Became a Stage: Presence, Theatricality, and the Question of Modernity ; translator and editor of Lisa Block de Behar’s Borges: The Passion of an Endless Quote; and editor of The Pragmatic Turn in Philosophy: Contemporary Engagements between Analytic and Continental Thought (forthcoming). Edward H. Friedman is Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature at Vanderbilt University. His books and essays center on early modern Spanish 308 CONTRIBUTORS literature, with special emphasis on Cervantes and the picaresque. He is the author of Wit’s End, an adaptation of Lope de Vega’s La dama boba, and he recently published an edition of Lope’s El caballero de Olmedo. He is editor of Bulletin of the Comediantes and immediate past president of the Cervantes Society of America. Leonardo García-Pabón is Associate Professor of Spanish-American literature at the University of Oregon, where he directs the Latin American Studies Program, and the Oregon Consortium of International and Area Studies. His publications include La Patria íntima. Alegorías nacionales en la literatura y el cine de Bolivia, and editions of Relatos de Potosí. Antología de la Historia de la Villa Imperial de Potosí by Bartolomé Arzáns Orsúa y Vela, and Óscar Cerruto’s La muerte mágica y otros relatos. Currently, he is working on a book on mestizaje and Andean literature since the colonial period. Carlos M. Gutiérrez is Associate Professor of Spanish at the University of Cincinnati and has formerly taught in France (Strasbourg) and Spain (Soria, Valladolid). He has published creative fiction and several studies on Spanish Golden Age. His most recent work is La espada, el rayo y la pluma. Quevedo y los campos literario y de poder. He is presently working on a book-length study about Cervantes’ Viaje del Parnaso and has recently finished a volume of short stories (Recurso al método). His research focuses on the seventeenth-century Spanish literary field. Paola Marín is Assistant Professor of Spanish and Women’s Studies at Gustavus Adolphus College. Her areas of concentration include Spanish Golden Age and Colonial Latin American literature and culture. She has published articles in Romance Notes, Universitas Humanistica, Romance Languages Annual, and is the author of a book on Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Teología y conciencia criolla. Luis Martín-Estudillo is Assistant Professor of Spanish Literature and Cultural Studies at the University of Iowa. He has published several articles on Spanish literature and cultural history in American and European journals and is co-author of the book Libertad y límites. El Barroco hispánico. His research interests include the relationships between early modern and contemporary aesthetics and epistemologies. He is co-director of Ex Libris, Revista de Poesía. CONTRIBUTORS 309 Mabel Moraña is Professor of Spanish American Literature at the University of Washington and Director of Publications of the Instituto Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana. She is the author of Literatura y cultura nacional en Hispanoamérica, 1910-1940; Memorias de la generación fantasma; Políticas de la escritura en América Latina: de la Colonia a la Modernidad; Viaje al silencio: Exploraciones del discurso barroco, and Crítica impura. She has edited a number of volumes, including Relecturas del Barroco de Indias and Ideologies of Hispanism. She has also coordinated special volumes on colonial literature for the Revista de Crítica Literaria Latinoamericana and the Revista Iberoamericana. In recent years, she has coordinated multiple volumes on indigenism , Latin American cultural criticism, modernity, and postcolonialism. Bradley J. Nelson is Associate Professor of Spanish at Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. His research interests include early modern symbolic culture in its theatrical...