Professor Aurora Egido FBA
- Fellow type
- International Fellow
- Year elected
- 2013
- Subjects
- Literature
Summary
Aurora Egido, PhD on Spanish Literature at the University of Barcelona, is full Professor of Spanish Literature at the University of Zaragoza, Fellow of the Real Academia Española and Corresponding Fellow of the Real Academia de Buenas Letras. She has been Professor at the University of Barcelona, the University Autónoma of Barcelona and the University of León. Spanish Language Assistant at the University of Cardiff and at Westfield College (London), Visiting Professor at UCLA, Johns Hopkins and the University of Cambridge (Great Britain), she has been also a Distinguished Professor at CUNY and Vice Chancelor of Humanities at the International University Menéndez Pelayo. Honorary President of the Asociación Internacional de Hispanistas and of the Asociación Internacional Siglo de Oro, she won the "Palmes Académiques" in France, the Award "Baltasar Gracián" and the National Research Award in Humanities "Ramón Menéndez Pidal". She has published editions, books and articles on theatre, poetry, prose and the relationship between literature and painting in the Spanish Literature of XVI and XVII centuries. She has studied in particular the works of Garcilaso, Fray Luis de León, Santa Teresa de Jesús, Cervantes, Lope de Vega, Soto de Rojas, Baltasar Gracián and Calderón de la Barca, among others authors and subjects.
Current post
Emeritus Professor of Spanish Literature, University of Zaragoza; Member, Real Academia Española
Past appointments
Other Foreign Institutions Emeritus Professor of Spanish Literature, University of Zaragoza
2016 -
Publications
Other Fellows of the British Academy
Professor Virginia Cox FBA
Renaissance and Counter-Reformation Italian literature and culture; history of the reception of classical rhetoric, 13th to 16th centuries; gender history and women’s writing
Professor Martin Butler FBA
Sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English literature, especially the drama and theatre; Ben Jonson and his circle; the court masque; textual editing
Professor Jeremy Robbins FBA
Spanish early modern art, literature, moral and political thought, and mysticism; seventeenth-century court culture, particularly Calderón de la Barca and Velázquez; Baltasar Gracián and the Jesuits
