David T. Gies is Commonwealth Professor of Spanish (Emeritus) and former Chairman of the Department of Spanish, Italian and Portuguese at the University of Virginia. Professor Gies has published seventeen books and critical editions of Spanish literature, including The Cambridge Companion to Modern Spanish Culture (1999), Theatre and Politics in Nineteenth-Century Spain (Cambridge, 1988), The Cambridge History of Spanish Literature (2004), and the Cambridge History of Theatre in Spain (co-edited, 2012). He has authored more than one hundred twenty-five essays and one hundred forty-five scholarly book reviews, and has lectured at universities in the US, Canada, England, Italy, Germany, France, Egypt, Argentina and Spain. He edits DIECIOCHO, a journal dedicated to the study of the Spanish Enlightenment, and has been awarded numerous research grants from agencies such as the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Philosophical Society, and the Spanish Ministry of Culture. In October 2007, he was named Encomienda de Número de la Orden de Isabel la Católica. In July 2013, he was elected for a three-year term as President of the International Association of Hispanists, and in 2015, he was elected Honorary President of Sigma Delta Pi, the Spanish National Honorary Society. In 2016, he won the prestigious annual Anderson Prize from the North American Academy of the Spanish Language and was elected Corresponding Member of the Spanish Royal Academy. He retired in 2018.
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