Contact Information: Office: Wilson 109 Phone: 4-4658 E-mail: dls6h@virginia.edu Mail: P.O. Box 400777 Responsibilities: Faculty Advisor of Spanish House.

DONALD L. SHAW is Brown Forman Professor of Spanish American Literature and a former Chairman of the Department of Spanish, Italian and Portuguese. He holds a B.A. and an M.A. by research from the University of Manchester (England) and a Ph.D. from The University of Dublin, Trinity College (Ireland). His areas of research include Peninsular Literature of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and more especially modern Spanish American Literature, especially fiction. He has published sixteen books and editions and more than one hundred and seventy articles in academic journals and contributions to books, in English, Spanish and Italian. He either is serving now or has served in the past on the Editorial Boards of some fourteen academic journals including The Hispanic Review, The Bulletin of Spanish Studies and Studies in Twentieth Century Literature.

Selected publications:

A Literary History of Spain: The Nineteenth Century (London,1972). Spanish edition (Barcelona, 1973). Now in its thirteenth edition, revised and amplified.

The Generation of 1898 in Spain (London, 1975). Spanish edition (Madrid, 1977). Now in its seventh edition, revised and amplified.

Nueva narrativa hispanoamericana (Madrid, 1981) now in its sixth edition.

Borges' Narrative Strategy (Liverpool, 1992).

The Post-Boom in Spanish American Fiction (Albany, 1998).

A Companion to Spanish American Fiction (London, 2001).

"Three Post-Boom Writers and the Boom."Latin American Literary Review. 14.47 (1996): 5-22.

"Faulkner y el mito pastoril del Sur." InterLitteras (University of Buenos Aires), 5 (1996): 5-8.

"The Earliest Neruda." Journal of Hispanic Research. 4 (1996): 169-81.

"Romanticismo y Antiromanticismo en El Nino de la Bola de Alarcon." Foro Hispanico (Belgium), 15 (1999): 21-29.

"El tema del incesto en Faulkner y Garcfa Marquez." Anthropos 187(1999): 100-105. "Prisma I and II." Hispanic Review (forthcoming)

"When was Modernism in Spanish American Fiction?" Bulletin of Spanish Studies (forthcoming)

"La boda del poeta: Skarmeta's Parody of Post-Boom Themes." Romance Quarterly (forthcoming).