Harry C. Payne Professor of Romance Languages
Education
M.A. University of California-Berkeley (1967)
Ph.D. Harvard University, Romance Languages (1974)
Areas of Expertise
Latin American Literature and Culture
Comparative Literature
Modernism
Music
Narrative (novels, short stories, satires)
Courses
COMP 200 LEC
European Modernism--and Its Discontents (not offered 2024/25)RLSP 206 LEC
Latin-American Civilizations (not offered 2024/25)RLSP 306 / COMP 302 TUT
Latino Writing: Literature by U.S. Hispanics (not offered 2024/25)RLSP 319 SEM
Dictatorship and the Latin-American Novel (not offered 2024/25)Scholarship/Creative Work
Overseas American: Growing up Gringo in the Tropics, 2005.
Editor, Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude: A Casebook, 2002.
Borges and His Fiction: A Guide to his Mind and Art (1981). Second edition, revised and expanded, 2000.
The Pianist Who Liked Ayn Rand: A Novella & 13 Stories, 1998.
Art for Art’s Sake and Literary Life: How Politics and Markets Helped Shape the Ideology and Culture of Aestheticism, 1790-1990, 1996.
García Márquez: The Man and His Work, 1990.
The Carlos Chadwick Mystery –fiction, 1990.
Awards, Fellowships & Grants
Fellowship, National Endowment for the Humanities, 1979
Grant, American Philosophical Society, 1982
Best Book Award for García Márquez: The Man and His Work, New England Council of Latin American Studies, 1991.
National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist, 1997, for “Art for Art’s Sake and Literary Life.”
Previous Posts
Professor, SUNY-Binghamton, 1971- 73
Professor, Yale University, 1973- 74
Visiting Professor, Wellesley College, 1984-5 and 1989-90
Director in Residence, Hamilton College Academic Year in Spain, 1986-87 and 1995-96