Kenneth Krabbenhoft

Professor
Ph.D. 1982 (Spanish and Portuguese), M.A. 1979 (Spanish and Portuguese), New York University; B.A.(magna cum laude) 1968 (Spanish and Portuguese), Yale.

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Areas of Research/Interest: Early-modern Spanish rhetoric and poetics (Góngora, Quevedo, Gracián); the Western mystical tradition, especially the Spanish 16th century and the kabbalah of the Spanish diaspora; Portuguese and Brazilian literature (Clarice Lispector, Sofia de Melo, Fernando Pessoa, José Saramago); science-fiction; and translation.

Select Publications: Principal translations are works by Pablo Neruda, St. John of the Cross, Jorge Luis Borges, and Eugenio Trías.
Fernando Pessoa e as doenças do fim de século (forthcoming, Imprensa Nacional-Casa da Moeda)
Abraham Cohen de Herrera: Puerta del cielo (Fundación Universitaria EspaZola, 1987).
El precio de la cortesía (Universidad de Salamanca, 1995).
Neoestoicismo y género popular (Universidad de Salamanca, 2001).
Abraham Cohen de Herrera: Gate of Heaven (Brill, 2002).
"Lem as Moral Theologian" (Contemporary Literary Criticism, Vol. 149).
"From Mysticism to Sacrament in A paixno segundo G.H." (Luso-Brazilian Review, Summer 1995).
"Fernando Pessoa's Metaphysics and Alberto Caeiro e companhia" (Portuguese Literary and Cultural Studies, Fall 1999).
"José Saramago, Cognitive Estrangement, and Original Sin?" (Portuguese Literary and Cultural Studies, Spring 2001).