Antonio Carreño, from Spain, received his Ph.D. from Yale University and taught at Yale, Columbia, and the University of Illinois before moving to Brown University where he holds the W. Duncan MacMillan Family Professorship in the Humanities. A specialist in 16th- and 17th-century Spanish Literature with an emphasis on Golden Age Poetry and the comedia, Professor Carreño has published extensively in this field and on contemporary Spanish poetry. Professor Carreño has received numerous fellowships (Guggenheim, Fulbright, National Endowment for the Humanities, American Council of Learned Societies, American Philosophical Society), as well as awards and recognitions: The Ramón Menéndez Pidal Prize by the Spanish Royal Academy and the Encomienda de la Orden Isabel la Católica, which was conferred in 1998 by the King of Spain. Professor Carreño has served as President of the International Association of Galician Studies, and as Vice-President of the International Association of Hispanists. He has been Chairman of the Department of Hispanic Studies at Brown and taught in the Spanish School of Middlebury since 1990. Carreño´s latest publication is a six volume edition of Lope de Vega’s completed poetry (Fundación Castro, 2002-2005).
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