Donald Gilbert-Santamaria: Who is Don Quixote?

Join us for a public reading of the prologue and first chapter of Don Quixote, the 17th century classic novel by Miguel de Cervantes, led by Donald Gilbert-Santamaria, Associate Professor in the University of Washington's Spanish and Portugese Studies Department.

Following, Gilbert-Santamaria will lead a discussion addressing Cervates' view of writing and reading, and the author's thoughts on creativity, imitation, and self-identification.

Donald Gilbert-Santamaría completed his degree in Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley in 1997 with a dissertation on the poetics of the Spanish picaresque novel. More recently, Gilbert has been revising a manuscript entitled "Writers on the Market: Consuming Literature in Early Seventeenth-Century Spain." This book project examines the rise of consumerism and its impact on the poetics of the novel and theater in Early Modern Spain. His publications have appeared in Hispanic Review, MLQ, and The Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, among others. He is also currently finishing a book manuscript on representations of friendship in early modern Spain.