University of Virginia Spanish, Italian & Portuguese

Commonwealth Professor of Spanish

Research: Enlightenment and Romantic Spanish literature, contemporary Spanish culture.

Responsibilities: Echols Advisor, Spanish Graduate Committee, Spanish Major Advisor, Pre-Teaching Advisor, Director of Spanish Project Center for Liberal Arts, MLA Teacher Education Project.

DAVID T. GIES is Commonwealth Professor of Spanish and former Chairman of the Department of Spanish, Italian and Portuguese. He holds a BA from Penn State University and an MA and PhD from the University of Pittsburgh. An expert on the literature of Enlightenment and Romantic Spain, and contemporary Spanish film, Professor Gies has published twelve books and critical editions of Spanish literature. He has authored more than eighty articles and one hundred book reviews, and has lectured at universities in the US, Canada, England, Italy, Germany, France, Argentina and Spain. He edits Dieciocho, a journal dedicated to the study of the Spanish Enlightenment, and has been awarded numerous grants from agencies such as the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Philosophical Society, and the Spanish Ministry of Culture. In 1992 he won the University of Virginia Outstanding Teaching Award. In 1999-2000 he served as Chair of the Faculty Senate, and in October 2000 he was awarded the highest recognition presented to a member of the University of Virginia community, the Thomas Jefferson Award. He is the editor of The Cambridge History of Spanish Literature (2005). Professor Gies will serve as Academic Dean for the maiden UVa voyage of Semester at Sea, summer 2007

Selected publications:

(ed.) The Cambridge Companion to Modern Spanish Culture (1999).

(ed). Negotiating Past and Present: Studies in Spanish Literature for Javier Herrero. Charlottesville, 1996.

The Theatre in Nineteenth-Century Spain. Cambridge, 1994 (Spanish version, 1996).

(ed.). José Zorrilla, Don Juan Tenorio. Madrid, 1994.

Theatre and Politics in Nineteenth-Century Spain: Juan de Grimaldi as Impresario and Government Agent. Cambridge, 1988.

Nicolás Fernández de Moratín. Boston, 1979.

Agustín Durán: A Biography and Literary Appreciation. London, 1975.

“El hispanismo que viene: Estados Unidos y Canadá.” Arbor 664 (abril 2001): 493-511.

“Spanish Theater and the Discourse of Self-Definition.” Revista de Estudios Hispánicos 34 (2000): 433-442

“Sensibilidad y sensualismo en la poesía dieciochesca.” Ideas en sus paisajes. Homenaje al profesor Russell P. Sebold, eds. Guillermo Carnero, Ignacio Javier López y Enrique Rubio. Alicante: Universidad de Alicante, 1999. 215-225.

“Sobre el erotismo rococó en la poesía del siglo XVIII español.” Luz vital. Estudios en homenaje a Víctor Ouimette, eds. Jesús Pérez Magallón y Ramón F. Llorens. Almería: Universidad de Almería, 1999. 85-95.

“Forner, la amistad y la patria: La escuela de la amistad, o el filósofo enamorado (1796).” Juan Pablo Forner y su época. Ed. Jesús Cañas y Miguel Ángel Lama. Cáceres: Editora Regional de Extremadura, 1998. 449-460.

“Todo ha de parar en bien: El teatro en España en 1898.” España fin de siglo. 1898. Ed. María del Carmen Iglesias. Barcelona: Fundación La Caixa, 1997. 185-190.

“Confessions of a Converted Chairman: My Life with Teacher Education.” ADFL Bulletin 28.2 (Winter 1997): 21-25.

“Spain Today: Is the Party Over?” Virginia Quarterly Review 72.3 (Summer 1996): 392-407.