Stephen Gilman
Stephen Gilman was an American Hispanist, known for his work on the 15th-century novel La Celestina.Biography
Gilman studied at Princeton University under Américo Castro and received his doctorate in 1943 with the work A critical analysis of the "Quijote apocrifo" of Alonso Fernández de Avellaneda . After 2 years of military service, he was a Princeton assistant professor from 1946 to 1948. He went to Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio and was first an associate professor, then a full professor from 1950 to 1956. For the academic year 1950–1951 he was a Guggenheim Fellow. From 1957 until his retirement in 1985, he taught at Harvard University as a professor of Romance languages. In 1961 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Gilman was the son-in-law of Jorge Guillén and the brother-in-law of Claudio Guillén.Selected publications
- The Art of “La Celestina”, Madison 1956, Westport 1976
- Tiempos y formas temporales en el "Poema del Cid", Madrid 1961, 1969, Ann Arbor 1971, 1982
- The tower as emblem. Chapter VIII, IX, XIX and XX of the “Chartreuse de Parme”, Frankfurt am Main 1967
- The Spain of Fernando de Rojas. The intellectual and social landscape of “La Celestina”, Princeton 1972, 1976,
- GaldĂłs and the art of the European novel 1867-1887, Princeton 1981,
- The novel according to Cervantes, Berkeley 1989
