Darío Fernández-Morera, Ph.D. Harvard University, Associate Professor
Professor Darío Fernández-Morera holds a B.A. from Stanford University, an M.A. in Romance Languages from the University of Pennsylvania and a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Harvard University. Presently tenured Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese. He has taught sixteenth and seventeenth century Spanish literature (Golden Age), Comparative Literature courses, Cervantes, the Renaissance, Origins of Spanish Civilization, Freshman Seminars and other classes. He has been confirmed by the United States Senate as a member of the National Council on the Humanities. In his classes he emphasizes close reading of the texts, knowledge of the historical background, and student research based on primary sources. For Fernandez-Morera, the truth is out there; but sometimes we have to work quite hard to find it. His publications include books and editions in English and Spanish and numerous articles and review articles in English and Spanish on critical discourses and methodology, cultural issues in Latin America, Spain, and the United States, contemporary political events, modern poetry, the encounter between Europeans and Amerindians, Modernism, Cervantes, Garcilaso de la Vega, Fray Luis de León, and Vicente Aleixandre. He has reviewed books and served as consultant and reader for History of European Ideas, The European Legacy, Symposium, Hispanic Review, the National Endowment for the Humanities, Canadian Review of Comparative Literature, Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos, etc. Some selected publications include American Academia and the Survival of Marxist Ideas; The Lyre and the Oaten Flute: Garcilaso and the Pastoral; Fray Luis: Poesía (ed); The Cultural Encounter Between Europeans and Amerindians (ed.); Cervantes in the English Speaking World (ed. with M. Hanke); Cervantes y su mundo II (ed with K. Reichenberger); ”Cervantes’ Theory and Practice of the Modern Novel,” in double issue of CIEFL Bulletin vol. 15 no. 2 and vol. 16 no. 1, pp. 49-66; ”The Myth of the Andalusian Paradise” (Now online at http://www.isi.org/journals/archive/issue.aspx?id=f6e1ad61-8699-4622-9d66-3d4aac01b072; already translated into a number of languages including Polish (see http://www.europa21.pl/News-article-sid-11334.html ); also available at Light Mind Forum, War and Peace section at http://www.lightgate.net/boards/viewtopic.php?t=5655&view=next). "Cervantes and the Aesthetics of Reception" (in Comparative Literature Studies; rept. in James person, ed. Literature Criticism: from 1400 to 1800, 1994); "Inca Garcilaso's Comentarios Reales or Who Tells the Story of a Conquered Civilization" in Comparative Civilizations Review (Spring 2008); "Chivalry, Symbolism, and Psychology in Cervantes' Knight of the Green Cloak," (Hispanic Review, 1993). Fernandez-Morera is now working on a book manuscript, Muslims, Jews and Catholics in al-Andalus: The Reality of Islamic Spain.
