Stephen Gilman

Stephen Gilman (1917 in Chicago – November 23, 1986 in Cambridge, Massachusetts) was an American Hispanist, known for his work on the 15th-century novel La Celestina.

Biography
Gilman studied at Princeton University under Américo Castro and received his doctorate in 1943 with the work  A critical analysis of the "Quijote apocrifo" of Alonso Fernández de Avellaneda  (published in Spanish: "Cervantes y Avellaneda. Estudio de una imitación", Mexico City 1951, Ann Arbor 1987). After two years of military service, he was a Princeton assistant professor from 1946 to 1948. He went to Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio and was first an associate professor, then a full professor from 1950 to 1956. For the academic year 1950–1951 he was a Guggenheim Fellow. From 1957 until his retirement in 1985, he taught at Harvard University as a professor of Romance languages. In 1961 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Gilman was the son-in-law of Jorge Guillén and the brother-in-law of Claudio Guillén.

Selected publications

 * The Art of “La Celestina”, Madison 1956, Westport 1976 (Spanish: La Celestina. Arte y estructura, Madrid 1974, 1992)
 * Tiempos y formas temporales en el "Poema del Cid", Madrid 1961, 1969, Ann Arbor 1971, 1982
 * The tower as emblem. Chapter VIII, IX, XIX and XX of the “Chartreuse de Parme”, Frankfurt am Main 1967
 * The Spain of Fernando de Rojas. The intellectual and social landscape of “La Celestina”, Princeton 1972, 1976, 2015 e-book edition (Spanish: La España de Fernando de Rojas. Panorama intelectual y social de “La Celestina”, Madrid 1978)
 * Galdós and the art of the European novel 1867-1887, Princeton 1981, 2014 e-book edition
 * The novel according to Cervantes, Berkeley 1989