Nicholas Spadaccini

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

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

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:

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.

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