[Faculty Index]
[Blasi, Alberto]
[Callahan, Laura]
[Chang-Rodriguez, Raquel]
[Childers, William]
[Costa, Marithelma]
[Del Valle, José]
[Di Camillo, Ottavio]
[Ana Diz]
[Fernández, Eva]
[Filer, Malva. E.]
[Glickman, Nora]
[Gottlieb, Marlene]
[Guiñazú, Cristina]
[Lerner, Isaías]
[Llorens, Irma]
[Madrigal, José Luis]
[Martínez, Elena]
[Martínez Torrejón, J. M.]
[Mercado, Juan Carlos]
[Mirrer, Louise]
[Montero, Óscar]
[Muñoz Millanes, José]
[Otheguy, Ricardo]
[Piña, Gerardo]
[Rabassa, Gregory]
[Reisz, Susana]
[Santos, Lidia]
[Schwartz, Lía]
[Sherzer, William M.]
[Soto, Francisco]
Distinguished Professor
Cervantes, Epic and Lyric Poetry of the Renaissance
History of the Spanish Language
email: Ilerner@gc.cuny.edu
phone: 212-817-8412
Isaías Lerner was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He studied at the University of Buenos Aires, where he graduated with a degree in Literature. In Buenos Aires he taught Latin, Spanish Literature and History of the Spanish Language at the University of Buenos Aires, the Instituto Superior del Profesorado and the Colegio Nacional de Buenos Aires. He received his Ph.D. at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign and taught at Northern Illinois University and University of Illinois before coming to New York in 1971 to teach at Lehman College, CUNY. Since 1978 he has been teaching at the Graduate School in the Ph.D Program in Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literatures and Languages and was its Executive Officer from 1985 to 1993. In 1999 he was appointed Distinguished Professor. As visiting scholar he has taught in Spain, Latin America and the United States.
His research work is mainly in the fields of History of the Language, the Spanish of Latin America, Spanish literature of the XVI and XVII centuries and Colonial Latin American Literature. He is the author and editor of thirteen books and over hundred articles and reviews. His book Arcaísmos léxicos del español de América won the Augusto Malaret Prize of the Real Academia Española. He is the recipient of many fellowships, including the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.
He has been founding member, vice-president and president (1993-1996) of the International Association of Golden Age Studies. He is an active member of many other professional organizations. The four volumes of the Proceedings of the XIV Congress of the International Association of Hispanists, held in July of 2001 at the Graduate Center, which he co-edited, appeared in June, 2004. P. Mexía’s Diálogos (1547) co-edited with Rafael Malparida appeared in 2006
Doctoral Dissertation Committees
Doctoral Dissertations - Chair
Doctoral Dissertations - Second Reader
Academic Activities
2001
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2001
Distinguished Professor Isaías Lerner presided one of the sessions at the "Encuentros sobre Hispanismo" that, sponsored by the Fundación Duques de Soria, took place at the Instituto Cervantes, New York on July 13 and 14, 2001. He was also Vice-President of the Local Committee of the XIV Congress of the International Association of Hispanists (AIH) that took place at the Graduate Center from July 16 to July 21, 2001. As such, he was responsible for the structuring of the Program's more than 350 papers and 6 Plenary sessions. He chaired one session of Spanish Linguistics and also the session devoted to Colonial Latin American Literature. At the same Congress he was appointed Secretario Adjunto and general editor of the Proceedings.
He also lectured at the Fifth Biennial Conference of the Society for Renaissance and Baroque Hispanic Poetry on October 19, 2001 at The Ohio State University on "Soto de Rojas poeta bucólico".
Two of his articles have appeared recently: "José Olivio Jiménez, hispanista", Revista Hispano Cubana, Madrid, 8, 2000, 81-84; and "Gracián y el espacio rioplatense," Boletín de la Fundación Federico García Lorca, Madrid, 29-30, 2001, 223-229.2002
Distinguished Professor Isaías Lerner spoke on Don Quixote, Second Part at Sarah Lawrence College on April 4, 2002. He also spoke on "Roberto Matta and Don Quixote" at the Haim Chanin Fine Arts on April 6. On April 23 he lectured on "Los libros de Cervantes" at the Graduate Center in a celebration of Cervantes' anniversary co-sponsored by the Instituto Cervantes and the Ph.D. Program in Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literatures.
2003
Books
Pedro Mexía, Silva de varia lección. Edición, prólogo, texto, notas e índices. Madrid: Castalia, 2003. Nueva Biblioteca de Erudición y Critica, 25, 981 pp.
Papers and Lectures
Cervantes y sus editores,
The Theory and Practice of Editing Hispanic Texts II: The Early Modern
Period, Graduate Center, CUNY, April 4, 2003
Las misceláneas del siglo XVI: Mexía, Torquemada y Cabello Valboa, Congreso internacional Antonio de Torquemada y la literatura del Siglo de Oro, Astorga y León, Spain, May 8, 2003
Variantes de autor en "La Araucana," The Theory and Practice of Editing Hispanic Texts III: The Colonial Period, Graduate Center, CUNY, October 10, 2003
Las misceláneas renacentistas y el mundo colonial americano, "Epic texts and the Colonial World," Princeton University Colloquium, November 7-8, 2003.2004
Articles
"Borges profesor", in Joaquín Roses, ed., Borges y el sur. Actas del Seminario de Literatura celebrado en la Diputación de Córdoba del 22 al 23 de octubre de 1999, Córdoba: Diputación de Córdoba, 2004, 13-16.
"Soto de Rojas, poeta bucólico", in Lía Schwartz, ed. Studies in Honor of James O. Crosby, Delaware: Juan de la Cuesta, 2004, 181-196.
Papers and Lectures
Mexía lector de Isócrates, Edad de Oro, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, March 23, 2004
Cervantes y la novela moderna, Graduate Seminar, Universidad de Valladolid, Spain, March 29-April 1, 2004
"La Araucana" y sus problemas textuales, Boston University, April 15, 2004
Cervantes and the common reader, Feliks Gross Endowment Award, May 12, 2004, CUNY Academy
BooksActas del XIV Congreso de la Asociación Internacional de Hispanistas. Delaware: Juan de la Cuesta, 2004, 4 vols. 2365 pp. Co-editor with Robert Nival and Alejandro Alonso.
2005
Books
Lecturas de Cervantes. Málaga: Universidad de Málaga, 2005, 445 pp.
Miguel de Cervantes, El ingenioso hidalgo don Quijote de La Mancha. Edición, texto, notas e índices. Buenos Aires: Editorial Universitaria de Buenos Aires, 1969, 2 vols. 938 pp. In collaboration with Celina Sabor de Cortazar. Prologue by Marcos A. Morínigo. Revised second edition. Prólogo a la segunda edición de Alicia Parodi y Juan Diego Vila, Buenos Aires: Eudeba, 2005, 2 vols. 966 pp.
Articles
"Mexía lector de Isócrates", Edad de Oro, Madrid, XXIV (2005)165-172.
"Las misceláneas renacentistas y el mundo colonial americano", Lexis, Lima, XXVII, 1-2, 2003 [2005], 217-232, "Homenaje a José Luis Rivarola", edición de Luis Jaime Cisneros, Isaías Lerner y Wulf Oesterreicher.
"Acerca de la poesía de Cervantes", in Christophe Coudere et Benoit Pellistrandi, eds. "Por discreto y por amigo" Mélanges offerts à Jean Canavaggio, Madrid: Casa de Velázquez, 2005, 93-100.
"Saberes viajeros: las misceláneas y el Nuevo Mundo" in Juan Matas Caballero et alii, eds., La maravilla escrita. Torquemada y el siglo de oro, León: Universidad de León, 2005, 15-32.
"Tiempos y espacios en el Quijote," Voz y Letra, número monográfico sobre el Quijote. XVI, 2005, 1-2, 81-93.
"La Araucana" Gran Enciclopedia Cervantina, Carlos Alvar, ed., Madrid: Centro de Estudios Cervantinos/Editorial Castalia, 2005, I, 656-660.
Reviews
"Exorcism and its texts. Subjectivity in Early Modern Literature of
England and Spain by Hilaire Kallendorf," Renaissance
Quarterly, LVIII,2, (2005), 265-267.
Papers and Lectures
Tiempos y espacios en el Quijote, Universidad
de Córdoba, Spain, Facultad de Filosofía y
Letras, "Jornadas el Quijote(1605-2005)", March 2, 2005
El Quijote y el decir con seso, Edad de Oro, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain, March 9, 2005
Teatro y novela en el Quijote, Universidad San Pablo-CEU, Madrid, Spain, April 25, 2005
Cervantes y la novela moderna, Graduate Seminar, Universidad de Valladolid, Spain, April 27-29, 2005
El Quijote y la literatura, Feria del libro, Valladolid, Spain, April 30, 2005, Colloquium with professors Rosa Navarro and Franciso Rico
Teatro y teatralidad en el Quijote, Queensborough Community College, May 5, 2005
Contemporary Readings of Don Quixote, Merrill Lynch, New York, June 1, 2005
Acción dramática y narratividad en el Quijote, Seminar "El Quijote ayer y hoy", Universidad Internacional Menéndez Pelayo, A Coruña, July 15, 2005
A propósito de las lecturas de Cervantes, VII Congreso de la AISO, University of Cambridge, Robinson College, July 21, 2005
Acción dramática y narratividad en el Quijote, Seminar "El Quijote y la invención de la modernidad", Cursos de verano, Universidad de Málaga, Vélez Málaga, August 3, 2005
Acerca de las lecturas de Cervantes, Colloquium on Cervantes, William Paterson University, October 20, 2005
Teatralidad y narración en el Quijote, Curso internacional conmemorativo del IV Centenario "La modernidad del Quijote, Fundación Caja Murcia, Murcia, Spain, October 28, 2005
A propósito de las lecturas de Cervantes, "Cervantes y su tiempo", Universidad de León, Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, León, Spain, November 2, 2005
El Quijote cuatrocientos años después, The City College of the City University of New York, Department of Foreign Languages, November 9, 2005
Tiempos y espacios en el Quijote, XI Congreso
de Estudiantes del Ph.D. Program In Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian
Literatures and Languages, Graduate School, CUNY, December 9, 2005
2006
Books
Articles and Notes
"Prólogo" in Juan Carlos Mercado, ed. Menéndez de Avilés y
La Florida. Crónicas de sus expediciones,
Queenston, Ontario: The Edwin Mellen Press, 2006, IV-VI
"El discurso literario del Diálogo de la lengua de Juan de Valdés" in Asunción Rallo Gruss y Rafael Malpartida Tirado, eds. Estudios sobre el Diálogo Renacentista Español, Málaga: Universidad de Málaga, 2006, 403- 409. Repr. de Actas del Octavo Congreso de la AIH, 1986.
"En qué Nueva York vivió Francisco Ayala?" Francisco Ayala El escritor en su siglo. Madrid: Sociedad Estatal de Conmemoraciones Culturales, 2006, 319-324.
"Prólogo" in Juliana Sinovas Maté, ed. Emilia Pardo Bazán, Cartas de La Condesa en el Diario de lla marina (1909-1921). Newark, Delaware, 2006, 13-14.
Papers and Lectures
"Cervantes y la novela moderna", Graduate Seminar, Universidad de
Valladolid, Spain, April 19-21, 2006
"Gramática normativa y enseñanza", Teacher Workshop Series, Instituto Cervantes and The Embassy of Spain's Education Office in NYC, April 28, 2006
"¿En qué Nueva York vivió Francisco Ayala?", Congreso Internacional, Francisco Ayala. El escritor en su siglo, Granada, Spain, July 17, 2006
"Épica y lirica: un diálogo de
géneros" in VIII Encuentros internacionales sobre
poesía del siglo de
oro: El canon poético en el siglo XVI: un proceso en marcha.
Universidad de Sevilla, December 21-23, 2006.
2007
Articles
"Tiempos y espacios en el Quijote" in Rafael Bonilla and Angelina Costa
eds., El Quijote (1605-2005),
Córdoba: Universidad de Córdoba, 2006, 23-35
“Lecturas transatlánticas del Quijote” Filología, Buenos Aires XXXIV-XXXV, 2002-2003 [2007] 77-82.
2008
Reviews
"Quixotic Frescoes: Cervantes and italian Renaissance Art by Frederick A. de Armas". Renaissance Quarterly, LXI,1, (2008), 173-175.
Seminars
Los discursos informativos en el siglo XVI: de las misceláneas a la historiografía.
Curso Superior para jóvenes hispanistas: "La Modernidad:
España y América". Madrid, Instituto Cervantes, January
8-18, 2008
Articles
“Alcedo, Antonio de (ca. 1734-1812)” in Joanne Pillsbury, ed., Guide to Docummentary Sources for Andean Studies, 1530-1900, University of Oklahoma Press: Norman and the National Gallery of Art, 2008, II, 26-27.
“Ercilla y Zúñiga, Alonso de (1533-1594)” in Joanne Pillsbury, ed., Guide to Docummentary Sources for Andean Studies, 1530-1900, University of Oklahoma Press: Norman and the National Gallery of Art, 2008, II, 201-203.