Hispanist

A Hispanist is a scholar specialising in Hispanic studies, that is Spanish language, literature, linguistics, history, or civilization.

The work carried out by Hispanists includes translations of literature and they may specialise in certain genres, authors or historical periods of the Iberian Peninsula and Latin America.

Publications

Publications dealing specifically with Hispanic studies include the Hispania quarterly published by the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese (AATSP).

Leading Hispanists

• Gerald Brenan
• Raymond Carr^[1]
• Alan Deyermond (1932-2009^[2])
• Ian Gibson
• Guillermo Gómez^[3]
• John Huxtable Elliott
• Gabriel Jackson
• Juan López-Morillas (University of Texas at Austin)^[4]
• Angus Mackay
• Edward Malefakis
• Erwin Kempton Mapes (University of Iowa)^[4]
• Stanley G. Payne
• Edgar Allison Peers
• Geoffrey Parker (historian)
• Paul Preston
• John D. Rutherford
• Dorothy Severin
• Alison Sinclair
• Robert Southey (1774–1843)
• Walter Starkie
• John Brande Trend
• Hugh Thomas
• George Ticknor
• Roger L. Utt^[5]
• Leslie Walton

Associations of Hispanists

The Spanish-language portal^[6] run by the Instituto Cervantes lists over 60 associations of Hispanists around the world, including the following:

• Asociación Hispánica de Literatura Medieval (Hispanic Association of Medieval Literature)
• Asociación Internacional de Hispanistas (International Association of Hispanists)
• Association of Hispanists of Great Britain and Ireland (AHGBI)^[7]
• Women in Spanish, Portuguese, and Latin-American Studies (WISPS)
• Asociación de Hispanismo Filosófico (AHF) (Philosophical Hispanism Association)
• Asociación Canadiense de Hispanistas (ACH) (Canadian Association of Hispanists)

See also

• Hispanism

References

External links

Universities offering Hispanic studies

• University of Birmingham
• University of Canterbury
• University of Liverpool
• Queen Mary, University of London
• The University of Western Ontario