Hispanist
Encyclopedia
A Hispanist is a scholar specialising in Hispanic studies, that is Spanish or Portuguese language, literature, linguistics, or civilization, and by extension, Basque
, Catalan
and Galician
.
The work carried out by Hispanists includes translations of literature and they may specialise in certain genres, authors or historical periods of the Iberian Peninsula
and Latin America
.
(AATSP).
lists over 60 associations of Hispanists around the world, including the following:
Basque language
Basque is the ancestral language of the Basque people, who inhabit the Basque Country, a region spanning an area in northeastern Spain and southwestern France. It is spoken by 25.7% of Basques in all territories...
, Catalan
Catalan language
Catalan is a Romance language, the national and only official language of Andorra and a co-official language in the Spanish autonomous communities of Catalonia, the Balearic Islands and Valencian Community, where it is known as Valencian , as well as in the city of Alghero, on the Italian island...
and Galician
Galician language
Galician is a language of the Western Ibero-Romance branch, spoken in Galicia, an autonomous community located in northwestern Spain, where it is co-official with Castilian Spanish, as well as in border zones of the neighbouring territories of Asturias and Castile and León.Modern Galician and...
.
The work carried out by Hispanists includes translations of literature and they may specialise in certain genres, authors or historical periods of the Iberian Peninsula
Iberian Peninsula
The Iberian Peninsula , sometimes called Iberia, is located in the extreme southwest of Europe and includes the modern-day sovereign states of Spain, Portugal and Andorra, as well as the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar...
and Latin America
Latin America
Latin America is a region of the Americas where Romance languages – particularly Spanish and Portuguese, and variably French – are primarily spoken. Latin America has an area of approximately 21,069,500 km² , almost 3.9% of the Earth's surface or 14.1% of its land surface area...
.
Publications
Publications dealing specifically with Hispanic studies include the Hispania quarterly published by the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and PortugueseAmerican Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese
The American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese is a language-specific professional association in the United States that was founded on 29 December 1917 in New York City as the American Association of Teachers of Spanish....
(AATSP).
Leading Hispanists
- Gerald BrenanGerald BrenanEdward FitzGerald "Gerald" Brenan, CBE was a British writer and Hispanist who spent much of his life in Spain.He is best known for The Spanish Labyrinth, a historical work on the background to the Spanish Civil War, and for South from Granada: Seven Years in an Andalusian Village...
- Raymond CarrRaymond CarrSir Albert Raymond Maillard Carr FBA FRHS FRSL , known as Raymond Carr, is an English historian specializing in the history of Spain, Latin America, and Sweden who was Warden of St Antony's College, Oxford, from 1968 to 1987....
- Alan DeyermondAlan DeyermondAlan Deyermond FBA was a British professor of Medieval Spanish Literature and Hispanist. His obituary cited him as the English-speaking world's leading scholar of medieval Hispanic literature. He spent his academic career associated with one college, Queen Mary and Westfield.Deyermond started...
(1932-2009) - Ian GibsonIan Gibson (author)Ian Gibson is an Irish author and Hispanist known for his biographies of Antonio Machado, Salvador Dalí, Henry Spencer Ashbee, and particularly his work on Federico García Lorca, for which he won several awards, including the 1989 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography...
- Guillermo GómezGuillermo Gómez RiveraGuillermo Gómez Rivera is a Filipino writer, journalist, poet, playwright, historian, linguist, dance instructor, and scholar of Spanish and British descent from the Province of Iloilo....
- John Huxtable ElliottJohn Huxtable ElliottSir John Huxtable Elliott, FBA , who normally publishes as J.H. Elliott, is an eminent historian, Regius Professor Emeritus in the University of Oxford and Honorary Fellow of Oriel College, Oxford and Trinity College, Cambridge....
- Juan López-Morillas (University of Texas at Austin)
- Gabriel JacksonGabriel JacksonGabriel Jackson is an American Hispanist, historian and journalist. He was born in New York. He is a leading authority on the Second Spanish Republic and the Spanish Civil War. Since his retirement he has lived in Barcelona, Spain....
- Angus MackayAngus Mackay (historian)Angus Mackay, born in Lima, Peru in 1939, is a Scottish historian and Hispanist, specialising in Later Medieval Spain.Having spent four years as a lecturer in history at the University of Reading, most of his career has been at University of Edinburgh, where he became a Doctor of Philosophy in 1970...
- Edward MalefakisEdward MalefakisEdward E. Malefakis is a professor of history at Columbia University and a Hispanist. He is an expert on Spanish history.The winner of the American Historical Association's Herbert Baxter Adams Prize in 1971 for his work "Agrarian Reform and Peasant Revolution in Spain, Origins of the Civil War" ,...
- Erwin Kempton MapesErwin Kempton MapesErwin Kempton Mapes , was an American scholar of Spanish-American literature and Hispanist, renowned for his work on the Hispanic Modernists....
(University of Iowa) - Stanley G. PayneStanley G. PayneStanley George Payne is a historian of modern Spain and European Fascism at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He retired from full time teaching in 2004 and is currently Professor Emeritus at its Department of History. Payne is one of the most famous modern theorists of fascism...
- Edgar Allison PeersEdgar Allison PeersEdgar Allison Peers , also known by his pseudonym Bruce Truscot, was an English Hispanist and educationist. He was Professor in Hispanic Studies at the University of Liverpool and is notable for founding the Modern Humanities Research Association and the Bulletin of Hispanic Studies .As "Bruce...
- Geoffrey Parker (historian)Geoffrey Parker (historian)Noel Geoffrey Parker is a leading hispanist and expert on military history. His best known book is Military Revolution: Military Innovation and the Rise of the West, 1500-1800, first published by Cambridge University Press in 1988. A fellow of the British Academy, he holds his BA, MA, Ph.D. and...
- Paul PrestonPaul PrestonPaul Preston CBE is a British historian and Hispanist, specialized in Spanish history, in particular the Spanish Civil War, which he has studied for more than 30 years....
- John D. RutherfordJohn D. RutherfordJohn David Rutherford MA, D.Phil is an Emeritus Fellow of The Queen's College, Oxford, a Hispanist and an award-winning novelist and translator from Spanish to English.- Studies :Rutherford started his Spanish studies at Wadham College before going on to St Antony's College in 1969, although...
- Dorothy SeverinDorothy SeverinDorothy Sherman Severin AB, AM, PhD, FSA, OBE is Emeritus Professor of Literature at University of Liverpool and a Hispanist...
- Alison SinclairAlison SinclairAlison Sinclair is a professor of Modern Spanish Literature and Intellectual History at the University of Cambridge, Hispanist and a fellow of Clare College, Cambridge.-Book publications:...
- Robert SoutheyRobert SoutheyRobert Southey was an English poet of the Romantic school, one of the so-called "Lake Poets", and Poet Laureate for 30 years from 1813 to his death in 1843...
(1774 – 1843) - Walter StarkieWalter StarkieWalter Fitzwilliam Starkie CMG, CBE, Litt.D was an Irish scholar, Hispanist, author and musician.Born in Killiney, County Dublin, he was the eldest son of the noted Greek scholar and translator of Aristophanes, William Joseph Myles Starkie and May Caroline Walsh. Starkie grew up surrounded by...
- John Brande TrendJohn Brande TrendJohn Brande Trend, or J.B. Trend, was a British Hispanist and the first Professor of Spanish at the University of Cambridge.Born in Southampton, Trend was educated at Christ's College, Cambridge, where he won an Exhibition to take the Natural Science Tripos...
- Hugh ThomasHugh ThomasHugh Thomas , is a British historian and life peer.Hugh Thomas may also refer to:* Hugh Thomas , American choral conductor, pianist and educator* Hugh Thomas , Australian rules football coach...
- George TicknorGeorge TicknorGeorge Ticknor was an American academician and Hispanist, specializing in the subject areas of languages and literature. He is known for his scholarly work on the history and criticism of Spanish literature....
- Roger L. Utt
- Leslie WaltonLeslie WaltonLeslie Bannister Walton was an academic in Hispanic Studies at Edinburgh University and a Hispanist.-Life:...
Associations of Hispanists
The Spanish-language portal run by the Instituto CervantesInstituto Cervantes
The Cervantes Institute is a worldwide non-profit organization created by the Spanish government in 1991. It is named after Miguel de Cervantes , the author of Don Quixote and perhaps the most important figure in the history of Spanish literature...
lists over 60 associations of Hispanists around the world, including the following:
- Asociación Hispánica de Literatura Medieval (Hispanic Association of Medieval Literature)
- Asociación Internacional de Hispanistas (International Association of Hispanists)
- Association of Hispanists of Great Britain and Ireland (AHGBI)
- Women in Spanish, Portuguese, and Latin-American Studies (WISPS)
- Asociación de Hispanismo Filosófico (AHF) (Philosophical Hispanism Association)
- Asociación Canadiense de Hispanistas (ACH) (Canadian Association of Hispanists)