David Castillo
Associate Professor
Department Chair
Office: 924 Clemens Hall
Phone: (716) 645-0869
Email: rll-chair@buffalo.edu
Website: Personal site
Degrees
- Licenciado, Universidad de Granada
- M.A. from University of Minnesota
- Ph.D. from University of Minnesota
Areas of Specialization
- Early Modern and Baroque Studies
- Spanish Golden Age
- Cultural criticism
Recent publications
- Reason and its Others: Italy, Spain and the New World. Eds. David Castillo and Massimo Lollini. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 2006.
- (A)wry Views: : Anamorphosis, Cervantes, and the Early Picaresque. West Lafayette, Indiana: Purdue University Press. Purdue Studies in Romance Languages, 2001
- "Horror (Vacui): The Baroque Condition." Hispanic Baroques. Reading Cultures in Context. Ed. Nicholas Spadaccini and Luis Martín-Estudillo. Nashville, Vanderbilt University Press, 2005.
- "Clarividencia tangencial y excentricidad en El licenciado Vidriera: Nueva interpretación de un motivo clásico." Estas primicias del ingenio. Jóvenes cervantistas en Chicago. Eds. Francisco Caudet and Kerry Wilks. Madrid: Castalia, 2003.
Current Research Projects
- Gallery of Baroque Horrors: Origins of the Fantastic in the Age of Curiosities. Forthcoming (University of Michigan) book dealing with tales of monstrous crimes, ghostly apparitions, dark legends and other curiosities in the work of 16th and 17th century authors, including María de Zayas, Miguel de Cervantes, Céspedes y Menéses, Cristóbal Lozano, Antonio de Torquemada, and Julian de Medrano.
Frequently Taught Courses
- Theory and Politics of Horror
- Cultural Theory
- Cervantes
- The Picaresque
- Baroque Theater
- Spanish Golden Age Culture
Professional Activities
- Member of the American Comparative Literature Association
- Member of the Asociación de Escritoras de España y las Americas
- Member of the Modern Language Association
- Member of the Editorial Board of Hispanic Issues and HI Online
- Member of the editorial board of the journal GEMELA
- Member of the Council of the Humanities Institute