Course Description

The Graduate Center of the City University of New York and The Hispanic Society of America, with support from the Fundación Duques de Soria and the Junta de Castilla y León, have co-organized and co-sponsored a series of four seminars that will offer an introduction to the theory and practice of editing Hispanic texts from the Medieval (I), Early Modern (II), Colonial (III) and Modern (IV) periods. They have been scheduled to take place during the Fall of 2002, Spring and Fall of 2003, and Fall 2004. We trust that these seminars will be of interest primarily to graduate students from a variety of disciplines who wish to work with unpublished material written in Spain and in America between the twelfth and the twentieth centuries, or are interested in the transmission of Hispanic texts before the age of printing and in the centuries immediately thereafter. It will also be of potential interest to students in library studies and to others who want to work with manuscripts, incunabula, and rare books.

The second of these seminars was conceived as an introduction to the study and editing of Hispanic Early Modern texts (sixteenth and seventeenth centuries). Designed to provide students with the skills necessary to make use of manuscripts and early printed texts in their research, the practical component of the course will offer a basic preparation in paleography, and will focus on identifying and transcribing the various scripts and printed texts. The course will also address the transcription of texts into machine-readable format. The theoretical component will be covered by six guest lecturers who will deal with specific problems encountered in the editing of different early modern, drama, poetry and fiction. Taught at the Graduate Center, the course will also include visits to The Hispanic Society of America to view primary source material.

The second seminar in the series will be taught by Dr. John O'Neill, Curator of Manuscripts and Rare Books at The Hispanic Society of America and Director of the Hispanic Seminary of Medieval Studies. Practical classes on paleography will be offered by Prof. Isabel Pérez Cuenca, Universidad San Pablo-CEU, Madrid.

SPAN 87001: Special topics in Spanish Literature. "The Theory and Practice of Editing Hispanic Texts II: The Early Modern Period," 2 credits, will meet on Fridays, 4:00-6:00 p.m., beginning on January 31st, and finishing on April 25th, 2003.

Open to all doctoral candidates at the Graduate Center. Interested students who are matriculated as doctoral students at Columbia University, New York University, Teacher's College, Fordham University and The New School may register for this course as part of the Inter University Cross Registration Agreement. Further information and registration procedures may be obtained through the Graduate Dean's office on your campus. Other interested students may register as non-degree students with the permission of the Executive Officer of the CUNY Graduate Center's Ph.D. Program in Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literatures, Prof. Lía Schwartz. For information, please call the office of the department at 212-817-8410 or e-mail Asantiago@gc.cuny.edu.

Guest lecturers