From 1986 until 2012, Donald L. Shaw taught courses in Latin American literature, history, and culture. His many publications in Latin American and transatlantic Iberian studies include Historia de la literatura española: Siglo XIX and La generación del 98.
On January 30, 2017, Professor Shaw passed away in Bologna, Italy. He is remembered fondly by his students and colleagues.
From 1973 until May 2010, Profesor David T. Haberly taught courses in Brazilian literature and history, as well as 19th century literatures and cultures of the Americas.
A selection of his articles is available for download here; click here to access his monograph on the history of race and racial representations in Brazilian literature.
From 1979 until 2002, Professor Javier Herrero taught courses in Spanish literatures and cultures at the University of Virginia. He authored and co-authored some 25 books in his distinguished career as a scholar of the early modern era and the 18th-20th centuries.
Please find here an extensive biography, which glosses Professor Herrero's many accomplishments in research and teaching.
From September 1983 to May 1994, Professor Donald McGrady taught Spanish literatures and literary histories at UVa.
Adrienne Ward received her Ph.D. in Italian from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her area of specialty is 17th- and 18th-century Italian literature, with a focus on theater production and culture. Her first book, Pagodas in Play: Representations of China in 18th-Century Italian Opera, was published by Bucknell University Press in 2010.
Andrew A. Anderson is Professor of Spanish in the Department of Spanish, Italian and Portuguese. He holds a B.A., M.A. and D.Phil. from Oxford University. Before coming to Virginia, he taught at Oxford University and the University of Michigan. Specializing in later nineteenth-century and twentieth-century Peninsular literature, his research is principally concerned with Spanish poetry and theatre from the 1890s through to the 1930s, as well as literature and film of the Spanish Civil War.
