Contact Information: Office: Wilson 111 Phone: 4-4650 E-mail: dth@virginia.edu Mail: P.O. Box 400777 Responsibilities: Portuguese Advisor; Committee for Visiting Professors; Spanish Major Advisor; Spanish Graduate Committee.

DAVID T. HABERLY is Professor of Portuguese. He holds an AB, MA, and PhD from Harvard University. After serving as Assistant Professor of Portuguese and Director of Latin American Studies at Harvard, he came to the University of Virginia in 1973 as Chair of the department. Professor Haberly is an expert on Brazilian literature and culture, but also has wide-ranging comparative interests in the nineteenth-century literatures of Latin America, the United States, and Spain. He has written or edited several books on Brazilian literature, and has published more than forty articles on writers from Brazil, Portugal, Argentina, the United States, and Catalonia. He is currently writing a book about the literary legend as a genre in the nineteenth-century New World, from Washington Irving to Ricardo Palma.

Selected publications:

Editor, Machado de Assis, Quincas Borba, trans. Gregory Rabassa. Oxford, 1999.

Editorial work, Introduction, and two chapters, vol. 3 of the Cambridge History of Latin American Literature. Cambridge, 1997.

Three Sad Races: Racial Identity and National Consciousness in Brazilian Literature. Cambridge, 1983.

"Male Anxiety and Sacrificial Masculinity: The Case of Echeverri'a." Hispanic Review 73 (2005): 291-308.

"Francis Bond Head and Domingo Sarmiento: A Note on the Sources of Facundo." MLN 120 (2005): 287-93.

"Caroline Gilman's 'What Woke Me From My Dream?'" The Explicator 61
(Fall,2002): 20-23.

"Hawthorne in the Province of Women." New England Quarterly 74 (2001): 580-621.

"Bela Tiffany, I Presume." Nathaniel Hawthorne Journal 27 (2001): 1-16.

"Noches lúgubres in Brazil." Dieciocho 23 (2000): 43-52.

"Verdaguer and the Minhocão." Catalan Review 12 (1998): 73-80.

"Genre as Myth: The Case of the Legend." Do The Americas Have a Common Literature, ed. Gustavo Pérez Firmat. Durham: Duke University Press, 1990. 42-61.

"Bags of Bones: A Source for Cien años de soledad." Modern Language Notes 105 (1990): 392-94.

"Into the River: Mário de Andrade's Tietê," Hispania 72 (1989): 277-81.

"The Argentine Gospel of Jorge Luis Borges," Bulletin of Hispanic Studies 66 (1989): 47-54.