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Professor
Nicholas Round is a graduate of Pembroke College, Oxford University,
where he later obtained a DPhil. From 1962 to 1972 he taught Spanish first
as Lecturer and then as Reader at Queen's University, Belfast, before
going to the University of Glasgow for 22 years as Stevenson Professor
of Hispanic Studies. He came to Sheffield as Hughes Professor of Hispanic
Studies in 1994. In 1996 he was elected a Fellow of the British Academy.
He was Director of Research for the Pérez Galdós Editions
Project between 1996 and 2003 and Presidente of the Asociación
de galdosistas (the AIG) in 1999.
He has published widely on
Galdós and other early modern novelists. He has translated Torquemada
en la hoguera (Torquemada in the Fire (Glasgow, 1985) and
the play Realidad (Broadcast, BBC Radio 4, 1975).
His articles on Galdós include:
- 'Rosalía Bringas's
Children', Anales Galdosianos, 6 (1971), 43-50
- 'Time and Torquemada: Three
Notes on Galdosian Chronology', Anales Galdosianos, 6 (1971),
79-97
- 'Galdós's Realidad:
Novel into Drama', Forum for Modern Language Studies, 20 (1984),
30-48
- 'Villaamil's Three Lives',
Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, 62 (1986), 19-32
- 'The Fictional Plenitude
of Angel Guerra', in Galdós's House of Fiction Papers
Given at the Birmingham Galdós Colloquim, ed. A.H. Clarke
and E.J. Rodgers (Lllangrannog: Dolphin, 1991), pp.143-67
- 'Predictable Fictions: Reflections
on Galdós and Some Others', in On Reasoning and Realism.
Three Easy Pieces (University of Manchester, 1991), pp.25-50
- 'Overstepping the Mark:
Rayuela and Lo prohibido', ibid., pp.51-66
- Review article: C. Menéndez
Onrubia, Introducción al teatro de Benito Pérez Galdós,
Anales Galdosianos, 21 (1986-92), 291-93
- 'Misericordia:
Galdosian Realism's 'Last Word', in A Sesquicentennial Tribute to
Galdós 1843-1993, ed. Linda M. Willem (Newark, 1993), pp.155-72
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Professor Geoffrey Ribbans
graduated from The King's College, London. He lectured at Queen's University
of Belfast, the University of St Andrews and the University of Sheffield
before being appointed Gilmour Professor of Spanish at the University
of Liverpool. He left Liverpool in 1978 to take up his current position
as William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Hispanic Studies at Brown University,
Providence, Rhode Island, USA. He was appointed Honorary Professor of
Hispanic Studies at the University of Sheffield in 1994 and became the
Project's Consultant Director in April 1996. In May 1998 he came to Sheffield
to give the Second Annual Pérez Galdós Lecture.
Professor Ribbans is the English-speaking
world's leading galdosista. He has written a number of books
on Galdós, including:
- Conflicts and conciliations:
the evolution of Galdós's "Fortunata y Jacinta" (West Lafayette,
Ind.: Purdue University Press, 1997)
- Benito Pérez
Galdós, 'Fortunata y Jacinta' (A critical guide, London,
1977)
- History and Fiction
in Galdós's Narratives (Oxford, 1993)
His articles on Galdós include:
- 'Woman as Scapegoat: The
Case of Galdós' Ángel Guerra', Bulletin of Hispanic
Studies, LXXVI (1999), 487-97
- 'Ricardo Gullón and
the Novels of Galdós', Anales Galdosianos, 3 (1968),
163-68
- 'Contemporary History in
the Structure and Characterization of Fortunata y Jacinta',
in Galdós Studies, ed. J.E. Varey (London, 1970)
- 'La figura Villaamil en
Miau', in Actas del Primer Congreso Internacional de Estudios
Galdosianos (Las Palmas, 1977), pp.97-118
- 'El carácter de Mauricia
la Dura en la estructura de Fortunata y Jacinta', in Actas
del Quinto Congreso Internacional de Hispanistas (Bordeaux, 1974) ,
ed. M. Chevalier et al (Bordeaux, 1977), II, pp.713-21
- 'Historia novelada
and novela histórica: The Use of Historical Incidents
from the Reign of Isabella II in Galdós's Episodios
and Novelas contemporáneas', in Hispanic Studies
in Honour of Frank Pierce, ed. John England Sheffield, 1980), pp.133-47
- 'The Portrayal of Queen
Isabella II in Galdós's Episodios and Novelas contemporáneas',
in La Chispa '81: Selected Proceeedings (New Orleans, 1981),
pp.277-86
- 'La historia como debiera
ser: Galdós's Speculations on Nineteenth-century Spanish
History', Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, 59 (1982), 267-74
- 'En torno al pluralismo
crítico en Fortunata y Jacinta', in Actas del Congreso
Internacional de Semiótica e Hispanismo (Madrid, 1986),
pp.381-88
- 'Galdós's Literary
Presentations of the Interregnum Reign of Amadeo and the First Republic
(1868-74)', Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, 63 (1986), 1-7
- Reality Plain or Fancy?
Some Reflections on the Realism of Galdós's Novels, E. Allison
Peers Lectures, I (Liverpool, 1986)
- 'The Restauración
in the Novels and Episodios of Galdós', Anales Galdosianos,
21 (1986)
- 'Feijóo: Policeman,
Inventor, Egotist, Failure?', Anales Galdosianos, 21 (1987)
- 'Dos paseos de Fortunata
por Madrid y su integración dentro de la estructura de la novela',
Hispania, 70 (1987), 740-45
- '¿Historia novelada o novela
histórica? Las diversas estrategias en el tratamiento de la historia
de las Novelas contemporáneas y los Episodios nacionales',
in Galdós y la historia, ed. Peter A. Bly (Ottawa, 1988),
pp.167-86
- 'El papel de Segismundo
Ballester en Fortunata y Jacinta', La Torre, II, no.5
(1988), 103-11
- 'La personalidad de Maxi
Rubín según el manuscrito de Fortunata y Jacinta
en Harvard', in Actas del Congreso Galdosiano: Centenario de 'Fortunata
y Jacinta' (Madrid, 1989), pp.591-97
- 'Galdós's View of
the Bourbon Restoration in Cánovas', in Studies
in Honor of Bruce W. Wardropper, ed. Dian Fox et al (Newark, 1989),
pp.221-36
- Doña Perfecta:
Yet Another Ending', Modern Language Notes, 105 (1990), 203-25
- 'Social Document or Narrative
Discourse? Some Aspects of Recent Galdós Criticism', in Galdós's
House of Fiction, ed. A. Clarke and E. Rodgers (Oxford, 1991),
pp.58-83
- 'The Making of a Minor Character:
Galdós's Plácido Estupiñá', Symposium,
46 (1992), 147-57
- 'How Galdós and Baroja
Treat History: The Murder of Police-Chief Chico in 1854', Forum
for Modern Language Studies, 29 (1993), 165-74
- 'Notes on the Narrator in
Fortunata y Jacinta', in A Sesquicentennial Tribute to
Galdós 1843-1993, ed. Linda Willem (Baltimore, 1993), 97-113
'Amparando/desamparando a Amparo: Some Reflexions on El Doctor
Centeno and Tormento', Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos,
17 (1993), 495-524
- 'Una creación galdosiana
- Teresa Villaescusa - entre la historia y la ficción', in Actas
de la Asociación Internacional de Hispanistas (24-30 August
1992), ed. Juan Villegas (Irvine, 1994), II, 113-21
- 'Unas apostillas más
a Rufete y Canencia', Anales Galdosianos, 29-30 (1994/95),
101-03
- 'Los Episodios Nacionales',
Estudio preliminar to Benito Pérez Galdós, Episodios
Nacionales I y II: Trafalgar y La corte de Carlos IV, ed. Dolores
Troncoso (Barcelona, 1995)
- 'The Unreliable Narrator
Revisited: The Case of Galdós's Lo prohibido', in Word
in Time: Poetry, Narrative, Translation (Essays for Arthur Terry on
the Occasion of his 70th Birthday), ed. by Leon Burnett (Colchester,
1997), pp.179-206
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Dr
Rhian Davies graduated from The Queen's College, Oxford University
in 1990. After working as a translator for the Civil Service in London, she returned
to Oxford to work on a DPhil under the supervision of
Dr John Rutherford ('La España Moderna: the cultural review
and Spain, 1889-1914)'.
She was a Laming Junior Fellow at The Queen's College, Oxford from 1994-96
before moving to Sheffield to take up the post of HEFCE/HRB
Institutional Fellow for the Galdós Editions Project in 1996.
She became became Director of Research for the Project in 2003 and is now Senior Lecturer in Hispanic Studies at the University of Sheffield.
Her publications on Galdós include:
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Galdós y Lázaro:
una breve y fructífera colaboración (1889-91) (Madrid:
Fundación Lázaro Galdiano/Oller y Ramos, 2002)
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'Civilization and Barbarity in the Torquemada Novels’, in Studies in Honor of Vernon Chamberlin, ed. Mark Harpring (Juan de la Cuesta-Hispanic Monographs, 2011), 49-64
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‘«La Ciudad Imperial »: Toledo en la obra periodística y novelística de Galdós’, in Actas del IX Congreso Internacional de estudios galdosianos (Las Palmas: Cabildo Insular de Gran Canaria, 2011), pp.571-83
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‘Galdós y la prensa: hacia una revisión crítica de la mina inagotable’, in Actas del VIII Congreso Internacional de estudios galdosianos (Las Palmas: Cabildo Insular de Gran Canaria, 2009), pp.509-19
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Literary encyclopaedia entry on Benito Pérez Galdós (published 14 December 2009) http://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=5489
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‘Regeneración and Philosophy in the Torquemada Novels’, in The Place of Argument: Essays in Honour of Nicholas G. Round, ed by Rhian Davies and Anny Brooksbank Jones (Woodbridge: Tamesis books, 2007), pp.86-102
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'The Manuscript of Torquemada en la Cruz: A Stage in a Creative Process', in New Galdós Studies, ed. Nicholas Round(London: Tamesis, 2003), pp.43-58
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'The Background to Torquemada
en la hoguera', Bulletin of Hispanic Studies (Glasgow),
LXXVI (1999), 399-413
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'The Pérez Galdós
Editions Project: Creating Electronic Scholarly Editions' (Publication
following a one-day conference on 'Teaching European Literature and
Culture with C&IT (Communication and Information Technologies)' organised
by the CTI, Oxford.University of Oxford). This paper can be viewed on
the Web at: http://info.ox.ac.uk/ctitext/publish/occas/eurolit/davies.html.
A printed version is also available from the CTI, Oxford.
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'Towards the modern reader:
the uses of IT in editing the novels of Galdós', in Digital
Evidence: Selected Papers from DRH 2000, edited by Michael Fraser,
Nigel Williamson and Marilyn Deegan, OHC 14 (London: Offices for Humanities
Communication, 2001), pp.169-78
- 'Teaching Students to Read:
The Uses of IT in Studying the Novels of Benito Pérez Galdós', Languages and Linguistics and Area Studies Subject Centre C&IT
Supplement, ed. Janet Bartle (Southampton: CILT, 2002), pp.12-14
- 'Editar los manuscritos
de Benito Pérez Galdós en CD-Rom', Cuadernos Cervantes de la lengua
española, 15 (July-August 1997), 51-53
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