Courses Taught: Hispanic Picaresque Fiction Golden Age Drama Don Quijote Spanish Literature Composition
Current Work in Progress
Book: Edition of Two Autos Sacramentales for Pegasus Press
Publications since 2001
Books:
Lazarillo de Tormes, Edition, Pegasus Press
Passages and Roots of the African Diaspora in Costa Rica 1522-2000, Vol II,
Ed. Ruth Simms Hamilton, Michigan State University Press, 2001, Robert L. Fiore, Ed. textual material in Spanish, invited
Articles:
"Lazarillo de Tormes y Mi tío Atahualpa de Paulo Carvalho-Neto: la justicia irónica en la picaresca. In Anales del 2. Congresso Brasileiro de Hispanistas, 2002, São Paulo, SP, Brasil [online]. [citado 30 Octubre 2004]. Disponible en World Wide Web:
Lazarillo de Tormes y Midnight Cowboy: La picaresca modelo y mito. In: Hispanista, n. 14. [Internet] http://www.hispanista.com.br/revista/artigo121esp.htm [Capturado em 30.Out.2004]
"La ley natural" en Diccionario de la Comedia. Eds. Frank P. Casa, Luciano Garcia Lorenzo and German Vega Luengo. Madrid: Castalia, 2002, 155-156.
"El humor y su contexto cultural en la picaresca." In Actas VII Congreso Internacional de Camineria Hispanica, forthcoming
Awards
The Civil Order of AlfonsoX, el Sabio Award, 2007, Spanish Government
College of Humanities, University of Arizona Mentoring Award, 2007
Oustanding University Achievements Award, University of Arizona, 2007
Honorary Associate of The Hispanic Society of America, 2001
Michigan Foreign Language College Professor of the Year, 1999
Short Biography
I was born in New York City. I came to the University of Arizona from Michigan State University where Iwas Professor of Spanish and Italian and Assistant Dean of the College of Arts and Letters. I received my B.A. in Spanish from Iona College with minors in Philosophy and Italian, myM.A. in Spanish from Middlebury College (Universidades de Madrid y Salamanca) and my Ph.D. in Romance Languages from UNC, Chapel Hill, with minors in Italian and French. My interests lie in Spanish and Latin American Picaresque and Golden Age Theater. I am the author of Drama and Ethos University of Kentucky Press and Lazarillo de Tormes Twayne and the editor of Crítica Hispánica, XIX, dedicated to Lazarillo de Tormes, and a scholarly edition Lazarillo de Tormes, Pegasus Press (2000). I have co-edited two volumes and written articles on the comedia, the Spanish and Latin American picaresque, the auto sacramental and the Midnight Cowboy. My current research projects are a book on the auto sacramental for Pegasus Press and articles on Hispanic Picaresque fiction. I am the proud mentor of graduate students who are productive scholars in the Golden Age. My outside interests are playing salsa with a cojunto, paddleball with colleagues and graduate students and acting in theatrical productions. I want to take lessons and play the vibraphone like Milt Jackson.