Michael Kidd

Professor,
Languages
Dir., Medieval Studies

CB 99
612-330-1206
kidd@augsburg.edu

隆Hola! Et salve!

Before coming to Augsburg in 2008, I taught at St. Olaf, Macalester, Carleton, and the University of New Mexico. I love Augsburg’s urban location, its emphasis on global citizenship, and its unique Medieval Studies program.

With academic training in Hispanic Studies and Classics, I teach a broad array of courses in Spanish language, literature, and culture as well as first-year Latin. My scholarship focuses on medieval, early modern, and contemporary Spain along with literary translation.

In addition to holding positions in 听补苍诲听, I collaborate closely with the Departments of聽听补苍诲听, with the , and with the .聽I am also聽a .

Education

  • 叠.础.听magna cum laude, Pomona College, 1990
  • Ph.D., Cornell University, 1995

Honors and Distinctions

  • Aldo & Jean Scaglione Translation Prize, Modern Language Association, 2023
  • Colorado Endowment for the Humanities Publication Prize, 2004
  • American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship, 2001
  • Mellon Fellowship in the Humanities, 1990-95
  • Phi Beta Kappa, 1990

Courses

  • ENL 360: The Classical Tradition
  • ENL 361: The Medieval World
  • HUM 120: Medieval Life in 12th-Century Europe (a.k.a. “Medieval Connections”)
  • LAT 101-102: Beginning Latin I & II
  • SPA 111-112: Beginning Spanish I & II
  • SPA 211-212: Intermediate Spanish I & II
  • SPA 248: Spanish and Latin American Culture through聽Film
  • SPA 295: Translation Theory and Practice
  • SPA 311: Spanish Conversation and Composition
  • SPA 312: Spanish Expression
  • SPA 331: Spanish Civilization and Culture
  • SPA 352-353: Survey of Spanish Literature I & II
  • SPA 354: Representative Hispanic Authors
  • SPA 356: Latin American Literature

Selected Publications

BOOKS

  • . Hackett, 2023.
    • Co-winner of the
  • . Hackett, 2019.
  • . Aris and Phillips, 2011. Anthologized in the聽 (2018).
  • . UP of Colorado, 2004. Anthologized in the聽Bedford Introduction to Drama,聽6e (2009).
  • . Penn State Studies in Romance Literatures. Penn State UP, 1999.

ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS

  • 聽Necessary Fiction.
  • “Presencia y ausencia de mitolog铆a cl谩sica en las obras laicas de Lucas Fern谩ndez.” Homenaje al profesor Juan Antonio L贸pez F茅rez. Ed. Luis Miguel Pino Campos and Germ谩n Santana Henr铆quez. Madrid: Ediciones Cl谩sicas, 2013. 419-26.
  • “Del objeto al sujeto: fetichismo y autonom铆a en El se帽or de Pigmali贸n de Jacinto Grau.” . Ed. Juan Antonio L贸pez F茅rez. Vol. 1. Madrid: Ediciones Cl谩sicas, 2009. 275-85. 2 vols.
  • “Queer Myth and the Fallacy of Heterosexual Desire: Luis Riaza’s Medea es un buen chico (1981).” . Ed. Aurora L贸pez and Andr茅s Poci帽a. Granada: Universidad de Granada, 2002. 1059-71.
  • “The Fairest of Them All: Racial and Sexual Signification in V茅lez de Guevara’s Virtudes vencen se帽ales.” . Ed. Edward H. Friedman, H. J. Manzari, and Donald D. Miller. New Orleans: UP of the South, 1998. 117-32.
  • “.” Hispanic Review 65 (1997): 217-36.
  • “Libidinal Expression and Artistic Repression: Juan Timoneda’s Tragicomedia llamada Filomena.” . Ed. Jos茅 Luis Su谩rez Garc铆a. York, South Carolina: Spanish Literature Publications, 1996. 74-85.
  • “” Bulletin of the Comediantes 47 (1995): 21-36.
  • “.” MLN 110 (1995): 271-83.
  • “.” Anales Galdosianos 29-30 (1994/95): 105-20.
  • “Laughing Matters: Reading, Gusto, and Narrative Entrapment in Don Quixote.” Cervantes 14.2 (1994): 27-39.

Favorite literary Quotes

Sunt lacrimae rerum et mentem mortalia tangunt.

鈥擵颈谤驳颈濒

Rapiebant me spectacula theatrica, plena聽imaginibus miserarium mearum et fomitibus ignis mei.

鈥擲t. Augustine

Quid igitur, O mortales, extra petitis intra vos positam felicitatem?

鈥擝辞别迟丑颈耻蝉

De los sos ojos tan fuertemientre llorando, tornava la cabe莽a e聽est谩valos catando.

鈥擯oem of the Cid

驴Qu茅 pasado bien no es sue帽o?

鈥擯edro Calder贸n de la Barca

La puerta del teatro no se cierra nunca.

鈥擣ederico Garc铆a Lorca

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