Nicholas Spadaccini

Educational Background & Specialties

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Educational Background

Ph.D.: Spanish Literature, New York University, New York City, none - none
M.A.: Spanish Literature, New York University at Universidad Complutense de Madrid, New York City / Madrid, Spain, none - none
B.A.: Romance Languages and Literatures, St. Francis College, Brooklyn, NY, none - 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

Publications

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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.

Activities

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Activities

Professional

Editor in Chief, Hispanic Issues Online 2006 - Present
Editor in Chief, Hispanic Issues 1987 - present
Chair, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Minnesota 1978 - 1981
Director of Undergraduate Studies, Department of Spanish and Portuguese Studies 1973 - 1975
Acting Chair, Department of Spanish and Portuguese Studies June-December 1990 -
Associate Chair, Department of Spanish and Portuguese Studies 1989-1990 -
Honors' Representative 1984-1986 -
Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Minnesota 1986-1989; 1996-1997 - 2001-2003
Coordinator of Extension Classes 1976-1977 -

Outreach

Planning Committee, Conference on Baroque Cities 2002 - 2003
Activities Related to Publications of Hispanic Issues and Hispanic Issues Online

Awards

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Courses Taught

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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