Born:
Born April 11, 1929 in Kaunas, Lithuania
Education:
Equivalent of B. A., Lycée Lithuanien, Tübingen, Germany, 1947
M. A. Université de Montréal, 1956
Ph. D. Bryn Mawr College, 1960
Teaching:
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Instructor 1960-61
Assistant Professor 1961-65
Associate Professor 1965-68
Professor 1968-98
John Bascom Professor 1973-98
Institute for Research in the Humanities 1973-98
Grants:
Spanish Government Scholarship for Curso de Filología Hispánica at Salamanca, 1965
Bryn Mawr College Travelling Fellowship, 1959
Canadian Federation of University Women Fellowship, 1959
John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, 1967-68
Fellow at the Institute for Research in the Humanities, 1971-72, II
Graduate School research grants: 1961-62 II; 1964-65 II; 1968-69 I; 1992-93, I
Summer 1971; 1974-75 I; 1984-85 II; 1991
The Camargo Foundation, 1984-85 II
La Casa del Traductor, Tarazona, Fall 1999
Prizes:
Lithuanian Writers' Association Designated Prize for Translation, 1992
La Encomienda de Alfonso X el Sabio. Ministerio de Cultura, 2003.
Guest lectures and papers at the following universities:
U.S. and Canada:
Albion College, Arizona (Tucson), Brown, Bryn Mawr College, California (Berkeley, Davis, Los Angeles, Riverside, San Diego, Santa Barbara), Chicago, Cornell, Florida State (Tallahassee), Georgetown, Harvard, Illinois (Chicago Circle, Urbana-Champagne), Illinois Wesleyan, Kansas U., Kentucky (Lexington), Lawrence (Appleton), Maryland (College Park), Massachusetts (Boston), McGill, Middlebury, Montreal, CUNY- New York, Ohio State (Columbus), Ohio WesleyanUniversity, Oklahoma (Norman), Pennsylvania, Puerto Rico (Mayagüez, Río Piedras), Purdue, Scripps College, Southern California, Texas (Austin), Toronto, Tulane, Villanova University, Wellesley, Wooster College, Wichita State
Spain:
Barcelona, Oviedo, Salamanca, Santiago de Compostela, Sevilla (La Rábida), Universidad de Deusto (San Sebastián) Zaragoza (Jaca, Zaragoza), Murcia, Valladolid, Bilbao (El Sitio), Pamplona, Valladolid, Córdoba, Málaga, Granada, UIMP Santander, Rovira i Virgili (Tarragona), Vigo
Germany:
FU Berlin, Hamburg, Siegen, Trier, Wuppertal, Instituto Cervantes Bremen
France:
Toulouse-Le Mirail, Fondation Camargo (Cassis), University of Rennes
Italy:
Instituto Hispánico de Cultura-Roma; Lithuanian Academy of Sciences-Roma; Universities of Palermo, Florence, Naples, Verona, Pisa
Argentina:
Universidad de Cuyo (Mendoza); Universidad Nacional de Córdoba; Universidad Federal (Buenos Aires)
Other:
Baltiska Institutet-Stockholm; Stockholm University, Göteborg University, Lund University ; Hebrew University-Jerusalem; Universidade Nova-Lisboa; Universidad de los Andes-Bogotá; Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas; Seisen University, Tokyo; London University; Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre (Brasil), Instituto Cervantes Bruxelles
Monographic Courses:
Universidad de Zaragoza (Jaca), Summer 1976, 1978, 1989, 1999, & 2000
Ateneo, San Juan, P.R., 1973
Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá March 1984
Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Madrid, May 2003
La poesía de la generación del 27 después de 1939
Visiting Professor
SUNY Stony Brook 1977-78 Sem. I
Forschungsinstitut für Geisteswissenschaften, Universität Siegen, 1983 Summer Semester
Harvard University, 1987-88 Sem. II
Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas; and Kaunas Technological University, 1994-95 Sem. I
Visiting Scholar:
Beijing University, May 2000
University of Lund (Sweden), Spring, 2001
Administrative Work:
Advisory Board: Journal of Baltic Studies, 1984-90
Advisory Board, Revista Hispánica Moderna
Advisory Board, Hispanic Review