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Samuel G. Armistead |
Introduction
Samuel G. Armistead received his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1955, in Spanish Literature and Romance Philology. He taught at Princeton, UCLA, Purdue, and at the University of Pennsylvania, before coming to UC Davis. He is author, co-author, editor, or co-editor of 27 book-length publications on the Spanish epic and on Pan-Hispanic traditional poetry, folk literature, folklore, and related topics. He has also worked on Hispano-Roman epigraphy and Hispanic dialectology. In 1957, he launched a long-range collaborative project aimed at collecting, editing, and studying, from a comparative perspective, a massive body of Hispanic oral literature. Extensive field work was carried out in Spain and Portugal and among Spanish-speaking Sephardic Jews from communities in North Africa and in Eastern Mediterranean countries. (For more information, see FLSJ: Sephardic Folk Literature). Since 1975, he has also done field work in Spanish-speaking communities in Louisiana and has published extensively concerning their language and oral literature.
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Introducción
Samuel G. Armistead sacó su doctorado en literatura española y filología románica, en Princeton University, en 1955. Ha enseñado en Princeton, en las Universidades de Pennsylvania, Purdue y la Universidad de California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Actualmente es profesor distinguido de literatura española en la Universidad de California, Davis. Los campos de investigación que le han interesado especialmente incluyen la lórica primitiva, la historiografía medieval, la dialectología hispánica, la épica castellana y el romancero viejo y tradicional. Ha realizado numerosas encuestas de campo sobre la literatura oral de las comunidades sefardíes de Marruecos y Oriente, además de comunidades en Portugal, Israel, y varios sitios en Estados Unidos. En 1957, inició un proyecto colaborativo para recoger, editar y estudiar, desde una perspectiva comparativa, este cuerpo masivo de literatura oral hispánica. (Ver Literatura oral de los sefardíes: FLSJ para más datos.) Desde 1975 también ha realizado investigaciones de campo en las comunidades de habla hispana en Louisiana, y ha publicado ampliamente sobre su lenguaje y literatura oral.
