Nicholas Spadaccini
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Educational Background & Specialties
Educational Background
- Ph.D.: Spanish Literature, New York University, New York City, none.
- M.A.: Spanish Literature, New York University at Universidad Complutense de Madrid, New York City / Madrid, Spain, none.
- B.A.: Romance Languages and Literatures, St. Francis College, Brooklyn, NY, none.
Specialties
- Comparative Literature / Cultural Studies
- Colonial Spanish-American Literautre and Culture
- Cervantes' Novel, Theater, and Poetry
- Early Modern Spanish Literature and Culture
- Contemporary Spanish Literature and Cultures
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Courses Taught
- Seminars on topics related to Early Modern Spain and Colonial Latin America
- Spanish and Spanish-American Baroque/Neobaroque
- Cervantes' Experimental Writing
- Cervantes and the Culture of Crisis of Baroque Spain
- Discourses of Imperial Spain (Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries)
- Spanish and Spanish American Colonial Writing
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Research & Professional Activities
Professional Activities
- Editor in Chief, Hispanic Issues: 1987 - present
- Editor in Chief, Hispanic Issues Online: 2006 - Present
- Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Minnesota: 1986-1989; 1996-1997 - 2001-2003
- Chair, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Minnesota: 1978 - 1981
- Associate Chair, Department of Spanish and Portuguese Studies: 1989-1990
- Acting Chair, Department of Spanish and Portuguese Studies: June-December 1990
- Honors' Representative: 1984-1986
- Coordinator of Extension Classes: 1976-1977
- Director of Undergraduate Studies, Department of Spanish and Portuguese Studies: 1973 - 1975
Outreach
- Planning Committee, Conference on Baroque Cities: 2002 - 2003
- Activities Related to Publications of Hispanic Issues and Hispanic Issues Online:
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Publications
- La vida y hechos de Estebanillo González, hombre de buen humor, 2 vols. ( with Anthony Zahareas). Madrid: Castalia, 1978. 867 pp. [Clásicos Castalia series, Vols. 86, 87].
- Los entremeses de Miguel de Cervantes. Madrid: Cátedra, 1982. 275 pp. [Letras Hispánicas series, Vol. 162].
- Literature Among Discourses: The Spanish Golden Age. (With Wlad Godzich). Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1986.
- El rufián dichoso /Pedro de Urdemalas. (With Jenaro Talens). Madrid: Cátedra, 1986. 392 pp. [Letras Hispánicas Series]
- The Institutionalization of Literature in Spain. (With Wlad Godzich). Minneapolis: Prisma, 1987. 275 pp.
- La crisis de la institución literaria en el siglo XIX. (With Wlad Godzich). Valencia, Eutopías, 1987. 196 pp.
- Autobiography in Early Modern Spain. (With Jenaro Talens). Minneapolis: Prisma, 1988. 294 pp.
- The Crisis of Institutionalized Literature in Spain. (With Wlad Godzich). Minneapolis: Prisma, 1988. 374 pp.
- 1492-1992: Re/Discovering Colonial Writing. (With René Jara). Minneapolis: Prisma, 1989. 475 pp. [Hispanic Issues Series 4]; rpt Univ. of Minnesota Press, 1991.
- Cervantes' Exemplary Novels and the Adventure of Writing. (With Michael Nerlich). Minneapolis: Prisma, 1990. 380 pp.
- The Politics of Editing. (With Jenaro Talens). Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1992. 190 pp.
- Amerindian Images and the Legacy of Columbus. (With René Jara). Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1992. 750 pp.
- Through the Shattering Glass. Cervantes and the Self-made World. (With Jenaro Talens). Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1993. 224 pp.
- Rhetoric and Politics. Baltasar Gracián and the New World Order. (With Jenaro Talens). Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press, 1997.
- What is the Color of a Princess. Edition/Translation of Jenaro Talens’De qué color son las princesas. Minneapolis: Studia Hispánica, 1999. 153pp.
- Libertad y límite. El barroco hispánico. Madrid: Ediciones del Orto, 2004.
- Hispanic Baroques. Reading Cultures in Context (With Luis Martín- Estudillo). Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 2005. 322pp.
- Debating Hispanic Studies. Reflections on Our Disciplines (With Luis Martin-Estudillo and Francisco Ocampo). Hispanic Issues Online 1 (Fall 2006). 136pp.
- Estudios Hispánicos: Perspectivas Internacionales (With Luis Martin-Estudillo and Francisco Ocampo). Hispanic Issues Online, 2 (Fall 2007). 198pp.
- New Spain, New Literatures. (With Luis Martin-Estudillo). Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 2010. 298pp.
- Hispanic Literatures and the Question of a Liberal Education. (With Luis Martin-Estudillo). Hispanic Issues Online 8 (Fall 2010). 250pp.
- Memory and Its Discontents (With Luis Martin-Estudillo ). Hispanic Issues Online 11 (Fall 2012). 250pp.
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Awards
- Committee on Cultural Cooperation Between Spain and U.S. Universities for the collaborative series Hispanic Issues, 1987 - 1995
- NEH Grant for Conference on Literature Among Discourses, 1984