David Castillo
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
- Baroque Horrors: Roots of the Fantastic in the Age of Curiosities. The University of Michigan Press, 2010.
- 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
- Spectacle and Topophilia: Reading Early (and Post-) Modern Hispanic Cultures. Eds. David Castillo and Bradley Nelson. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press (forthcoming 2011).
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