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Carreno, Antonio

He is a translator, teacher and researcher of 16th and 17th Spanish literature born in Spain who studied at the Escuela de Magisterio, Trinity College and Yale.  He graduated with a doctorate from Yale in 1975 and went on to teach there as well as at Columbia University and the University of Illinois.  In 1985 he moved to Brown University where he has held the W. Duncan MacMillan Family Professorship in the Humanities and he also teaches at the Spanish School in Middlebury.

Being in receipt of several fellowships he has been awarded them by organisations such as the Guggenheim, the American Philosophical Society, the Fulbright and the American Council of Learned Societies.

Also receiving several awards he has been given the Ramon Menendez Pidal Prize by the Spanish Royal Academy of Madrid in recognition for his outstanding work on the balladry of Lope de Vega, and in 1998 was honoured with the Encomienda de la Orden de Isabel la Catolica by King Juan Carlos I of Spain.

He is recognised as a translator/adaptor/researcher on Lope de Vega’s Christmas carol “Pastores a Belen” along with many of his other works and has also published books on contemporary Spanish poetry.

Sources:

  1. http://research.brown.edu/research/profile.php?id=1129557403
  2. https://vivo.brown.edu/display/acarreno
  3. http://www.middlebury.edu/academics/ls/spanish/facstaff/carreno.htm