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Anthony J. Cárdenas-Rotunno
Professor of Spanish
Ortega Hall 441
(505) 277-5526
E-mail: ajcard@unm.edu
Research areas:
- Medieval literature
with strong research interests in the Golden Age
- Cervantes
- 17th century
New Mexican texts
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Alcázar de Segovia, June 2004 |
| I was born in Los Alamos,
NM and grew up in Santa Fe. With English as my Muttersprache, for
the longest time I had wanted to learn Spanish, the language of
my ancestors. The search for my roots took me back to Medieval
Spain where I noted so many commonalties between what I saw as
a child and what I learned about that period. All this, combined
with having been raised Catholic, having had nuns forever criticize
my penmanship, having gone to the seminary before Vatican I and
II made specializing in the Middle as natural as water flowing
down an arroyo. Since editing the Libro del saber de astrologia
for my dissertation under the direction of Professor Lloyd Kasten,
I have been a practicing medievalist with additional strong research
and teaching interests in the Golden Age, especially Cervantes,
and now, more than ever, in seventeenth-century New Mexico. In
addition to editing texts, and hence to an interest in Spanish
vernacular paleography, my research has lead me to inquire a variety
of topics some of which has resulted in publications.
I have always thoroughly enjoyed teaching at the university level
and look forward to croaking in the classroom. |
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