Contact Information: Office: Wilson 124 Phone: 4-7503 E-mail: gerli@virginia.edu Mail: P.O. Box 400777 Responsibilities: Alderman Library Liaison, Wlassics Fellowship Committee, Spanish Graduate Committee, Spanish Major Advisor, Director of Graduate Admissions, Committee for Visiting Professors.

E. MICHAEL GERLI, Commonwealth Professor of Spanish, received his Ph.D. in Hispanic Languages and Literatures from UCLA in 1972. He is the author of some 125 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, and others), and is the General Editor of Medieval Iberia: An Encyclopedia (New York: Routledge, 2003). The latest of his twelve books, Poetry at Court in Trastamaran Spain, was published by the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at Arizona State University (1998). 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) and the Modern Language Association's Division of Medieval Spanish Language and Literature's John K. Walsh Prize (1997).

Professor Gerli has held fellowships and grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities (1986, 1992, 1994, 2002), 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), Johns Hopkins University (1990, 1991), the University of Virginia (1992), the University of Pennsylvania (1993), and Emory University (2002). 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) served as Andrew W. Mellon Distinguished Professor in Georgetown's School of Languages and Linguistics.