Professor of Spanish
Ph.D. 1982 (Spanish and Portuguese), M.A. 1979 (Spanish and Portuguese), New York University; B.A.(magna cum laude) 1968 (Spanish and Portuguese), Yale.

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Research Interests:

Early-modern Spanish rhetoric and poetics (Góngora, Quevedo, Gracián); the Western mystical tradition, especially the Spanish 16th century and the kabbalah of the Spanish diaspora; Portuguese and Brazilian literature (Clarice Lispector, Sofia de Melo, Fernando Pessoa, José Saramago); science-fiction; and translation.

Fellowships/Honors:

Named in "Choosing the Right College 2004" as one of NYU's best teachers; CLACS Faculty Summer Travel Grant (1996); Curricular Development Fund: Gender Studes Course and Component, NYU Master of Arts in Liberal Studies Program (Fall 1992); NYU Presidential Fellowship (1984); NYU Penfield Fellowship (1980-81).

Selected Works:

Principal translations are works by Pablo Neruda, St. John of the Cross, Jorge Luis Borges, and Eugenio Trías.
Fernando Pessoa e as doenças do fim de século (forthcoming, Imprensa Nacional-Casa da Moeda)
Abraham Cohen de Herrera: Puerta del cielo (Fundación Universitaria EspaZola, 1987).
El precio de la cortesía (Universidad de Salamanca, 1995).
Neoestoicismo y género popular (Universidad de Salamanca, 2001).
Abraham Cohen de Herrera: Gate of Heaven (Brill, forthcoming 2002-2003).
"Lem as Moral Theologian" (Contemporary Literary Criticism, Vol. 149).
"From Mysticism to Sacrament in A paixno segundo G.H." (Luso-Brazilian Review, Summer 1995).
"Fernando Pessoa's Metaphysics and Alberto Caeiro e companhia" (Portuguese Literary and Cultural Studies, Fall 1999).
"José Saramago, Cognitive Estrangement, and Original Sin?" (Portuguese Literary and Cultural Studies, Spring 2001).

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