Francisco Márquez Villanueva #
| Sadly, this member passed away. | |
| Membership Number: | 2478 |
| Membership type: | FOREIGN |
| Section: | LITERARY & THEATRICAL STUDIES |
| Elected: | 2007 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED STATES |
Francisco Márquez Villanueva passed away June 15, 2013.
Positions Held
- Since 2001 Arthur Kingley Porter Research Professor, Harvard University
- 1992 - 2001 Arthur Kingsley Porter Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures, Harvard University
- 1978 - 1992 Professor, Harvard University
- 1969 - 1978 Professor, Queens College
- 1967 - 1969 Professor, Rutgers University
- 1965 - 1967 Assistant Professor, Harvard University
- 1962 - 1965 Assistant Professor, University of British Columbia, Vancouver
- 1959 - 1962 Instructor, Harvard University
- 1956 - 1959 Adjunct professor, University of Seville
- 1954 - 1956 Academic Assistant to Prof. Francisco López Estrada, University of Seville
Fields of Scholarship
- Medieval Spanish and Golden Age literature
- History of the Spanish language
- Comparative literature
- Spanish intellectual and religious history
- Iberoamerican history and culture
- Spanish philology
Honours and Awards
- 1978 Founding Member of the Cervantes Society of America
- 1982 Guggenheim Fellowship
- 1984 Member of Hispanic Society of America
- 1985 Member of Academia Sevillana de Buenas Letras
- 1986 Member of American Academy of Literary Studies
- 1996 Member of Royal Academy of Fine Arts and Historical Sciences of Toledo
- 1999 Honorary Fellow of the Hispanic Society of America
- 2004 Gold Medal and Favorite Son ("Hijo Predilecto") of Andalucia by the Autonomous Government of Andalucia
- 2004 Special Prize of the Real Fundación de Toledo
- 2007 Academia Europaea Erasmus Medal
