“In the Surrealist Mode: Salvador Dalí and Federico García Lorca”

Wednesday, Nov. 3, 2004  @ 7:30 p.m.
Willard Smith Library

Robert Lima
Professor Emeritus of Spanish and
Comparative Literatures
Pennsylvania State University

Robert Lima, poet, critic, bibliographer, playwright and translator, is Professor Emeritus of Spanish and Comparative Literatures at the Pennsylvania State University, Fellow Emeritus of the Institute for the Arts and Humanistic Studies, and Academician of the Academia Norteamericana de la Lengua Española. His poetry has been published throughout the U. S. and abroad in periodicals, antologies, and in his poetry collections Fathoms (1981), The Olde Ground (1985), Mayaland (1992), Sardinia/Sardegna (2000), Tracking the Minotaur (2003), as well as in his chapbooks Poem of Exile and Alienation (with Terensika Pereira, 1976) and Corporal Works (1985).

Professor Lima’s books on literary criticism include Theatre of García Lorca (Las Américas, 1, 1963), Ramón del Valle-Inclán (Columbia UP, 1972), An Annotated Bibliography of Valle-Inclán (Penn State Libraries, 1972), Dos ensayos sobre teatro español de los veinte (U. de Murcia, 1984), and Valle-Inclán: The Theatre of His Life (Missouri UP 1988). His most recent books are Dark Prisms: Occultism inHispanic Drama (UP of Kentucky) and :Valle-InclánEl teatro de su vida (Editorial Nigra, Spain), both published in 1995, Ramón del Valle-Inclán: An Annotated Bibliography (1999) and The Dramatic World of Valle Inclán (Boydell & Brewer, 2003). His Stages of Evil: Occultism in Western Theatre and Drama (UP Kentucky) will appear in 2005. “In 1974 he created “Surrealism-A Celebration,” a multi-faceted event in honor of the 50th anniversary of the Surrealist Movement. Elements of this event appeared in a special 1975 issue of Journal of General Education, which he edited