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Degrees: Ph.D. University of California, Los Angeles M.A. Middlebury College B.A. University of California, Los Angeles Interests E. Michael Gerli received his Ph.D. in Hispanic Languages and Literatures from UCLA in 1972. He is the author of some 150 publications on medieval and renaissance Romance literary and linguistic themes, serves on the editorial boards of numerous journals and presses in both the U.S. and abroad (Hispanic Review, Biblioteca Española del Siglo XV de la Universidad de Salamanca, University of North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatures, Journal of Hispanic Philology, La Corónica, Medievalia, Anuario de Estudios Cervantinos, Convivencia, Cancionero General, and others), and is the General Editor of Medieval Iberia: An Encyclopedia (New York: Routledge, 2003). The latest of his thirteen books, Celestina and the Ends of Desire, was published by the University of Toronto Press in 2011 and was awarded the Modern Language Association of America’s twenty-second annual Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize for an outstanding book published in English or Spanish in the field of Latin American and Spanish literatures and cultures. Professor Gerli’s Refiguring Authority: Reading, Writing, and Rewriting in Cervantes (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1995) was chosen as an “Outstanding Academic Book” by the American Association of College and University Libraries in 1996. He is also a recipient of the Hispanic Review’s Edwin B. Williams Prize (1981), the Modern Language Association’s Division of Medieval Spanish Language and Literature’s John K. Walsh Prize (1997), and in 2009 was named Distinguished Alumnus by the University of California, Los Angeles. Professor Gerli has held fellowships and grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities (1986, 1992, 1994, 2002, 2009, 2011), the American Council of Learned Societies (1978, 1981, 1989), the Program for Cultural Cooperation between Spain’s Ministry of Culture and United States Universities (1981, 1988, 1993, 1994, 1996, 1997, 2004), the Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs (1998), the American Philosophical Society (1979), and Georgetown University (1977, 1983, 1984, 1986, 1987). Professor Gerli has been Visiting Professor at the Catholic University of America (1976), UCLA (1980), the University of Maryland (1986, 1989, 2012), Johns Hopkins University (1990, 1991), the University of Virginia (1992), the University of Pennsylvania (1993), Emory University (2002), and Duke University (2007). He has also lectured at many universities in the United States, Europe and Latin America, served as a consultant to foundations, government agencies, and university presses, and his views on medieval and early modern Iberian intellectual history and culture have appeared in interviews with various media. Finally, Professor Gerli has served as an elected representative to the Modern Language Association’s Delegate Assembly and twice been elected chair of the MLA’s Division of Medieval Hispanic Languages and Literatures. Prior to moving to the University of Virginia in the fall of 2000, he was Chair of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Georgetown University (1982-1989, and 1997-2000) and served as Andrew W. Mellon Distinguished Professor in Georgetown’s School of Languages and Linguistics.