About the Chairman of the Board and
Publisher of Scripta Humanistica,
Dr. Bruno M. Damiani

Dr. Damiani is Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures at the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. He has authored several studies on Petrarch, Quevedo, Aretino, Malón de Chaide, Cervantes, Lazarillo de Tormes and La Lozana andaluza, as well as: an edition of La Lozana andaluza (Madrid: Castalia, 1967); a critical edition of La Lozana andaluza (Madrid: Porrúa, 1979); and editions of La Celestina (Madrid: Cátedra, 1974) and La pícara Justina (Madrid: Porrúa, 1982). Dr. Damiani has also co-edited a volume on Humanities and the Health Sciences – A Collaborative Project for Faculty Development and Curricular Revision (San Juan, Puerto Rico, and Potomac, Maryland: Scripta Humanistica, 1998), funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Professor Damiani has also authored numerous books on the Spanish Golden Age, among them, Francisco Delicado (New York: G.K. Hall, 1974), Francisco López de Úbeda (New York: G.K. Hall, 1976), "La Diana" of Montemayor as Social and Religious Teaching (Lexington: The University of Kentucky Press, 1983), Montemayor’s "Diana," Music, and the Visual Arts (Madison: The Hispanic Seminary of Medieval Studies, 1983), Jorge de Montemayor (Rome: Bulzoni, 1984), Moralidad y didactismo en el Siglo de Oro (Madrid: Orígenes, 1987), and co-authored Et in Arcadia ego: Essays on Death in the Pastoral Novel (Washington, D.C.: University Press of America, 1990).

Professor Damiani has also edited or co-edited homage volumes in honor of Helmut Hatzfeld (1974), Gerald Wade (1979), D.W. McPheeters (1986), and Elias Rivers (1988).

Professor Damiani has lectured extensively at more than one hundred universities in the United States and abroad, among them: Yale, Princeton, Berkeley, Venice, Paris and Madrid, and he has been visiting professor at numerous universities including the Universities of Salamanca, Málaga, Valladolid, Naples, and Costa Rica. Professor Damiani has been the recipient of grants and honors from the American Philosophical Society, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the Program for Cultural Cooperation between Spain’s Ministry of Culture and U.S. universities. He has also received the Distinguished Professor Award from the Inter-American University of Puerto Rico and the Papal Medal for Distinguished Service.

Professor Damiani has served on the Editorial Boards of Quaderni Ibero-Americani, Crítica Hispánica, Kentucky Romance Quarterly, Journal of Hispanic Philology, Revista de Literatura, The Comparatist, and Dovehouse Editions of the Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies (Ottawa). He has been consultant to the Institute of Modern Languages, the U.S. Department of Education, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. He is a Corresponding Member of the Hispanic Society of America, a member of the Catholic Academy of Sciences, and President of the Brumar Communications Corporation.