Jose Monleon, vice chair of Romance Languages and Literatures for the past three years and a well-known critic and historian on modern Spanish literature, died on Aug. 11. The cause was cancer. He was 55.
Stephen G. Nichols, James M. Beall Professor of French and Humanities and chair of Romance Languages and Literatures, said that Monleon brought a special blend of vision and optimism not only to the Spanish section but to the department as a whole.
Nichols said that under Monleon’s leadership, the department initiated a successful foreign study program in Madrid and that the undergraduate programs in Romance Languages have been “immeasurably strengthened thanks largely to suggestions put forward—with his signature modesty and quiet humor—by Jose.”
A professor of 19th- and 20th-century Spanish literature as well as of literary theory, Monleon completed his last book, Literature and Dictatorship: The Novel under Franco, shortly before his illness. Monleon published some six editions of modern Spanish authors such as Gustavo Becquer, Juan Valera and Benito Perez Galdos. He also wrote a well-known study of the literature of the fantastic in Spanish: Specter Is Haunting Europe: A Sociohistorical Approach to the Fantastic.
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