• Dissertation Title: Agudeza y arte de ingenio: Un arte del concepto.

• Supervisory Committee:
  • Professor Isaías Lerner, Chair
  • Professor Ottavio Di Camillo
  • Professor Thomas Mermall

• email: aedels@yahoo.com

Dr. Lago is on the Spanish Language faculty (Associate Professor) at Sarah Lawrence College (Bronxville, NY) where he teaches courses in the Spanish Baroque and in U.S. Latino and contemporary Latin American fiction writers. He is the author of Cuentos dispersos (Scattered Tales), a collection of short stories, Cuaderno de Mejico (Mexican Notebook), a memoir of a trip to Chiapas, and Dark & Yellow Rooms, an illustrated essay on painting. He has also authored numerous articles and translated works by Charles Brockden-Brown, Hamlin Garland, William Dean Howells, Henry James, Sylvia Plath, Christopher Isherwood, Junot Diaz, and John Barth. His main interest is the study of the undercurrents that connect the different areas of the pan-Hispanic world: that is the literature of Latinos, Latin Americans and Iberians.

On March 8, 2002 Dr. Lago spoke at the International Colloquium, Past and Present: The Legacy of Baltasar Gracián, sponsored by the Instituto Cervantes and the Ph.D. Program in Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literatures, on "La poética del misterio."

In October, 2002 Dr. Lago was awarded by the Fundación March the premio a la crítica, a most prestigious award granted to cricital essays on literary works. The five member panel awarded the prize to Dr. Lago for his essay "El íncubo de lo imposible," a study of Spanish translations of James Joyce's Ulisses. The other winners of this year's award were the Peruvian novelist Mario Vargas Llosa and the journalist J. A. Masoliver Ródenas.

He has also been awarded Spain's oldest and most prestigious literary award, the Premio Nadal, for his first novel Llámame Brooklyn (Ediciones Destino, 2006).