Professor of Romance Languages

• Latin American Literature and Culture
  
• Comparative Literature
• Modernism
• Music
• Narrative (novels, short stories, satires)

• Intermediate Spanish (RLSP 103)
  
• Latin American Civilization (RLSP 112)
• From Modernismo to El Boom de la Novela (RLSP 203)
• The Latin American Novel in Translation (RLSP 205/LIT 215)
• Latino Writing: Literature by U.S. Hispanics (RLSP 306T)
• Studies in Modern Latin American Literature (RLSP 403)

• B.A. University of Arizona, 1963
  
• M.A. University of California, Berkeley, 1967
• Ph.D. Harvard University, 1974

• 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

• 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.

• 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."