Michael Kidd

Professor,
Languages
Dir., Medieval Studies

CB 99
612-330-1206
kidd@augsburg.edu

¡Hola! Et salve!

Before coming to Augsburg in 2008, I taught at St. Olaf, Macalester, Carleton, and the University of New Mexico. I love Augsburg’s urban location, its emphasis on global citizenship, and its unique Medieval Studies program.

With academic training in Hispanic Studies and Classics, I teach a broad array of courses in Spanish language, literature, and culture as well as first-year Latin. My scholarship focuses on medieval, early modern, and contemporary Spain along with literary translation.

In addition to holding positions in Ìý²¹²Ô»åÌý, I collaborate closely with the Departments of Ìý²¹²Ô»åÌý, with the , and with the . I am also a .

Education

  • µþ.´¡.Ìýmagna cum laude, Pomona College, 1990
  • Ph.D., Cornell University, 1995

Honors and Distinctions

  • Aldo & Jean Scaglione Translation Prize, Modern Language Association, 2023
  • Colorado Endowment for the Humanities Publication Prize, 2004
  • American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship, 2001
  • Mellon Fellowship in the Humanities, 1990-95
  • Phi Beta Kappa, 1990

Courses

  • ENL 360: The Classical Tradition
  • ENL 361: The Medieval World
  • HUM 120: Medieval Life in 12th-Century Europe (a.k.a. “Medieval Connections”)
  • LAT 101-102: Beginning Latin I & II
  • SPA 111-112: Beginning Spanish I & II
  • SPA 211-212: Intermediate Spanish I & II
  • SPA 248: Spanish and Latin American Culture through Film
  • SPA 295: Translation Theory and Practice
  • SPA 311: Spanish Conversation and Composition
  • SPA 312: Spanish Expression
  • SPA 331: Spanish Civilization and Culture
  • SPA 352-353: Survey of Spanish Literature I & II
  • SPA 354: Representative Hispanic Authors
  • SPA 356: Latin American Literature

Selected Publications

BOOKS

  • . Hackett, 2023.
    • Co-winner of the
  • . Hackett, 2019.
  • . Aris and Phillips, 2011. Anthologized in the  (2018).
  • . UP of Colorado, 2004. Anthologized in the Bedford Introduction to Drama, 6e (2009).
  • . Penn State Studies in Romance Literatures. Penn State UP, 1999.

ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS

  •  Necessary Fiction.
  • “Presencia y ausencia de mitología clásica en las obras laicas de Lucas Fernández.” Homenaje al profesor Juan Antonio López Férez. Ed. Luis Miguel Pino Campos and Germán Santana Henríquez. Madrid: Ediciones Clásicas, 2013. 419-26.
  • “Del objeto al sujeto: fetichismo y autonomía en El señor de Pigmalión de Jacinto Grau.” . Ed. Juan Antonio López Férez. Vol. 1. Madrid: Ediciones Clásicas, 2009. 275-85. 2 vols.
  • “Queer Myth and the Fallacy of Heterosexual Desire: Luis Riaza’s Medea es un buen chico (1981).” . Ed. Aurora López and Andrés Pociña. Granada: Universidad de Granada, 2002. 1059-71.
  • “The Fairest of Them All: Racial and Sexual Signification in Vélez de Guevara’s Virtudes vencen señales.” . Ed. Edward H. Friedman, H. J. Manzari, and Donald D. Miller. New Orleans: UP of the South, 1998. 117-32.
  • “.” Hispanic Review 65 (1997): 217-36.
  • “Libidinal Expression and Artistic Repression: Juan Timoneda’s Tragicomedia llamada Filomena.” . Ed. José Luis Suárez García. York, South Carolina: Spanish Literature Publications, 1996. 74-85.
  • “” Bulletin of the Comediantes 47 (1995): 21-36.
  • “.” MLN 110 (1995): 271-83.
  • “.” Anales Galdosianos 29-30 (1994/95): 105-20.
  • “Laughing Matters: Reading, Gusto, and Narrative Entrapment in Don Quixote.” Cervantes 14.2 (1994): 27-39.

Favorite literary Quotes

Sunt lacrimae rerum et mentem mortalia tangunt.

—V¾±°ù²µ¾±±ô

Rapiebant me spectacula theatrica, plena imaginibus miserarium mearum et fomitibus ignis mei.

—St. Augustine

Quid igitur, O mortales, extra petitis intra vos positam felicitatem?

—B´Ç±ð³Ù³ó¾±³Ü²õ

De los sos ojos tan fuertemientre llorando, tornava la cabeça e estávalos catando.

—Poem of the Cid

¿Qué pasado bien no es sueño?

—Pedro Calderón de la Barca

La puerta del teatro no se cierra nunca.

—Federico García Lorca

Take one of my courses to learn more!