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Frederick Luciani

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Frederick Luciani

Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures, Emeritus

Department/Office Information

Romance Languages , Africana and Latin American Studies

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Degree

BA, Rutgers University, 1976; MA, PhD, Yale University, 1977, 1982

Specialties

Spanish American colonial literature; 19th, 20th century Latin American literature

Interests

Convent literature and culture of the colonial period; the Hispanic Baroque; Latin American Romanticism; Nineteenth-Century transatlantic literary relations; travel literature; the Latin American short story.

Publications

Books:

  • Jose María Heredia in New York (1823-1825):  An Exiled Cuban Poet in the Age of Revolution.  Selected Letters and Verse.  Ed. and trans.  Frederick Luciani.   SUNY Press 2020
  • Joaquín Barruchi y Arana,  Relación del festejo que a los Marqueses de las Amarillas les hicieron las Señoras Religiosas del Convento de San Jerónimo (México, 1756).  Ed. Frederick Luciani.  Biblioteca Indiana, no. 30.   Madrid/Frankfurt:  Iberoamericana / Vervuert, 2011.
  • Literary Self-Fashioning in Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz.  Lewisburg: Bucknell University Presses, 2004.


Selected articles and essays:

  • “The Ship:  Spanish America,â€� and “The Comedia:  Spanish America,â€� in A Lexikon of the Hispanic Baroque:  Technologies of a Transatlantic Culture.  Ed. Kenneth Mills and Evonne Levy.  Austin:  University of Texas Press, 2013.
  • “Poetry in Motion: A Mexican Vicereine’s Verse Travel Diary (1757),â€� Caliope 16, 1 (2010).
  •  â€œCriminalidad y buen gobierno en un entremés conventual:  las monjas de San Jerónimo instruyen al virrey (México, 1756).â€�  Bulletin of the Comediantes 58, 1 (2006).
  • “An Approach to Teaching Drama Written in Colonial Spanish America.â€�  In Approaches to Teaching Early Modern Spanish Drama (MLA Teaching World Literature Series).  Ed. Laura R. Bass and Margaret R. Greer.  New York:  The Modern Language Association of America, 2006.
  • “The Man in the Car/in the Trees/behind the Fence:  From Cortázar's "Blow-Up" to Stone's JFK.â€�  Julio Cortázar:  New Readings.  Ed. Carlos J. Alonso.  Cambridge:  Cambridge University Press, 1998.
Professional Experience

Associate Editor, Colonial Latin American Review, 1999-2003, 2010-present. General Editor, 2003-2010.

Director, ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø program in Spain, fall 1994, fall 2003, fall 2006, fall 2010, fall 2011, fall 2013, fall 2015, fall 2018.

Chair of the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø, spring 1991, 1992-1994, spring 1996, 1996-1998, 2000-2002, 2005-2006, 2016-2018, spring 2019.

Distinctions

ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø Presidential Scholar, 2006-2008; NEH Research Fellow, John Carter Brown Library, 2005; NEH Fellowship 1995; Research Associate, Center for Latin American Studies, University of California, Berkeley 1991; Picker Fellowship 1988; Cornell University Latin American Studies Program summer 1987; Fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies 1984

Board Membership

Member of Editorial Boards of Colonial Latin American Review, 1995-present; Latin American Literary Review, 1990-1996; Revista Iberoamericana, 1992-1994.  Member, Advisory Board, Philologica Canariensia, 2013-present.