"Goya and Money: an Exercise in Cultural Biography"
Department: Spanish and Portuguese
Date and Time: May 5, 2014 | 5:00 PM-6:30 PMEvent Location: Humanities Gateway 1030
Event Details
Distinguished Speaker
Luis Fernández Cifuentes
Robert S. and Ilse Friend Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures
Harvard University
Luis Fernández Cifuentes received his BA from Madrid's Universidad Complutense and his Ph.D from Princeton University. He is currently Robert S. and Ilse Friend Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures at Harvard University. He has published books on early 20th century Spanish narrative and on the theater of García Lorca, and has co-edited books on different subjects, most recently, with professor Brad Epps, on Spanish literary history, under the title Spain beyond Spain (2005). His critical edition of Max Aub's Las buenas intenciones and La calle de Valverde appeared in 2008 and his new critical edition of Zorrilla's Don Juan Tenorio in 2012. He has more than seventy articles on different subjects and genres, from Torres Villarroel's autobiography to Galdós' novels, from travel literature to urban studies, from Biography as a genre to the avatars of physiognomy in modern literature. He is currently working on a cultural history of the year 1955 in Spain.