University of California
UNIVERSITY EDUCATION
University of California, Los Angeles, 1970 Ph.D. (Hispanic & Luso-Brazilian Literatures)
University of California, Berkeley, 1965, M.A. (Spanish with Portuguese minor)
University of California, Berkeley, 1963, B.A. (Spanish with Portuguese minor)
University of San Francisco, Fall 1958, Spring 1960
Università per Stranieri, Florence, Italy, Autumn 1959
Monterey Institute of Foreign Studies, Summer 1958
PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYMENT
Research Professor, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2011-
Professor Emeritus. University of California, Santa Barbara, 2011-
Professor, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1981-2011
Visiting Professor, University of California, Berkeley, Spring 1997
Associate Professor, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1977-81
Assistant Professor, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1970-76
Visiting Lecturer, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Fall 1975
Acting Assistant Professor, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1968-70
Teaching Assistant, University of California, Los Angeles, 1965-67
Teaching Assistant, University of California, Berkeley, 1963-65
AWARDS, HONORS, FELLOWSHIPS, MAJOR GRANTS
Countess of Kinnoull Scholarship, Monterey Institute of Foreign Studies, 1958
Fulbright-Hays Fellowship, Spain, 1967-68
Del Amo Foundation Fellowship, Spain, 1967-68
American Philosophical Society grant, 1972
National Endowment for the Humanites travel to libraries grant, 1992
National Endowment for the Humanities research tools grant, 1993-94 (co-investigator)
National Endowment for the Humanities research tools grant, 2000-01 (co-investigator)
CNRS – UCSB faculty research exchange program, Paris, France, Spring 2002
Doutor honoris causa, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, 2003
Distinguished Alumnus, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of California, Los Angeles, 2003
University of California Education Abroad Program – Faculty Exchange with the University of Granada, Spain, 2005
National Endowment for the Humanities research tools grant, 2007-10 (co-investigator)
National Endowment for the Humanities research tools grant, 2014-15 (co-investigator)
Rewriting Arthurian Matter: Homage to Harvey L. Sharrer. First international colloquium organized by the Hispanic Branch of the International Arthurian Society. University of Granada, 4-6 February 2015
UNIVERSITY ADMINISTRATIVE POSITIONS
Chair, Medieval Studies Program, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2003-04
Chair, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2002-03
Vice-Chair, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1991-95
Director, Barcelona Study Center, University of California Education Abroad Program and University of Illinois Program in Spain, 1984-86
Chair, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1978-81
Acting Chair, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of California, Santa Barbara, Spring 1997, Spring 1978
MEMBERSHIP ON EDITORIAL BOARDS, RESEARCH ADVISORY COUNCILS, ETC.
Hispanic Seminary of Medieval Studies (University of Wisconsin-Madison), 1980-99
Journal of Hispanic Philology (Florida State University), 1976-94
Olifant (New York University), 1975-2002
Papers of the Medieval Hispanic Research Seminar (Queen Mary College, University of London), 1998 to date
Romance Philology (University of California, Berkeley), 1982-2001; senior Editor, 2002 to date
Filologia e Língua Portuguesa (Universidade de São Paulo), 2006 to date
The Galician Review (University of Birmingham, England), 2007 to date
Cadernos do CEIL. Revista multidisciplinar de estudos sobre o Imaginário (Universidade Nova de Lisboa), 2010 to date
Medievalia. Revista d’Estudis Medievals (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona), 2012 to date
Researcher, Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (Lisbon, Portugal), 2010 to date
Comissão Científico de Acompanhamento, Instituto de Estudos Medievais, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, 2013 to date
EDITORSHIP OF JOURNALS AND SERIES
Co-Editor, Santa Barbara Portuguese Studies (University of California, Santa Barbara), 2000 to date.
General Editor, Center for Portuguese Studies Publication Series (University of California, Santa Barbara), 1981-92
Editor, La Corónica, Spanish Medieval Language and Literature Journal and Newsletter, 1973-75
PUBLICATIONS ON ARTHURIAN AND ARTHURIAN-RELATED TOPICS
BOOKS:
[1977] A Critical Bibliography of Hispanic Arthurian Material, I: Texts: The Prose Romance Cycles. Research Bibliographies & Checklists, 3. London: Grant & Cutler.
[1979] The Legendary History of Britain in Lope García de Salazar’s «Libro de las bienandanzas e fortunas.» Haney Foundation Series, 23. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
[2006] Lanzarote del Lago. Ed. Antonio Contreras Martín and Harvey L. Sharrer. Alcalá de Henares: Centro de Estudios Cervantinos, 2006. (Los Libros de Rocinante, 22).
ELECTRONIC PUBLICATIONS:
[1999] Transcription with Introduction, by Dayle Seidenspinner-Núñez and Harvey L. Sharrer, of
Libro del esforçado Caballero don Tristán de Leonís [Valladolid: Juan de Burgos, 1501].
ADMYTE-2. Madrid: Micronet. CD-ROM. Transcription without Introduction of same text also issued in
Electronic Texts and Concordances of the Madison Corpus of Early Spanish Manuscripts and Printings. Madison-New York: Hispanic Seminary of Medieval Studies. CD-ROM. (Also available online by subscription:
http://www.admyte.com/home.htm[2008] Transcription of Lanzarote del Lago: MS 9611, Biblioteca Nacional de España; with text concordances. Ed. with Josephine Jiménez. CD-Rom. Corpus of Hispanic Chivalric Romances. Vol. 2. General editor Ivy A. Corfis. New York: Hispanic Seminary of Medieval Studies.
ARTICLES AND NOTES:
[1971] «The Passing of King Arthur to the Island of Brasil in a Fifteenth-Century Spanish Version of the Post-Vulgate Roman du Graal.» Romania, vol. 92, pp. 65-74.
[1974] «Grant No. 6409 Penrose Fund (1972): An Edition of the Spanish Prose Lancelot.» Yearbook of the American Philosophical Society 1973, pp. 667-68.
[1978] «Two Eighteenth-Century Chapbook Romances of Chivalry by António da Silva, Mestre de Gramática: Lançarote do Lago and Dário Lobondo Alexandrino.» Hispanic Review, vol. 46, pp. 137-46.
[1979] «Malory and the Spanish and Italian Tristan Texts: The Search for the Missing Link.» Tristania, vol. 4, pp. 36-43.
[1981] «Letters in the Hispanic Prose Tristan Texts: Iseut’s Complaint and Tristan’s Reply.» Tristania, vol. 7, pp. 3-20.
[1984] «La fusión de las novelas artúrica y sentimental a fines de la Edad Media.» El Crotalón: Anuario de Filología Española, vol. 1, pp. 147-57.
[1987] «Notas sobre la materia artúrica hispánica, 1979-1986.» La Corónica, vol. 15, pp. 328-40.
[1988] «Two Lancelot Ballads.» In The Romance of Arthur, III: Works from Russia to Spain, Norway to Italy. Ed. James J. Wilhelm. New York: Garland, 1988, pp. 259-64.
[1988] «Juan de Burgos: Impresor y refundidor de libros caballerescos.» In El libro antiguo español: Actas del primer Coloquio Internacional (Madrid, 18 al 20 de diciembre de 1986). Rpt. 1993. Ed. María Luisa López-Vidriero and Pedro M. Cátedra. Salamanca: Ediciones de la Universidad de Salamanca; Madrid: Biblioteca Nacional de Madrid, Sociedad Española de Historia del Libro, pp. 361-69.
[1988] «La materia de Bretaña en la poesía gallego-portuguesa.» In Actas del I Congreso de la Asociación Hispánica de Literatura Medieval: Santiago de Compostela, 2 al 6 de diciembre de 1985. Ed. Vicente Beltrán. Barcelona: PUP, pp. 561-69.
[1990] «Briolanja as a Name in Early Fifteenth-Century Portugal: Echo of a Reworked Portuguese Amadis de Gaula?» La Corónica, vol. 19, pp. 112-18.
[1991] «La fusión de la novela artúrica y la novela sentimental.» In Edad Media: Primer Suplemento. Ed. Alan Deyermond, vol. 1/1 of Historia y crítica de la literatura española. Ed. Francisco Rico. Barcelona: Crítica, pp. 307-11. [abridgement of 1984 article «La fusión…»]
[1994] «The Acclimatization of the Lancelot-Grail Cycle in Spain and Portugal.» In The Lancelot-Grail Cycle: Text and Transormations. Ed. William W. Kibler. Austin: University of Texas Press, pp. 175-90.
[1996] «Spain and Portugal.» In Medieval Arthurian Literatura: A Guide to Recent Research. Ed. Norris J. Lacy. New York: Garland, pp. 401-49.
[2006] «Tablante de Ricamonte before and after Cervantes’ Don Quixote.» Medieval and Renaissance Spain and Portugal: Studies in Honor of Arthur L-F. Askins. Ed. Martha E. Schaffer and Antonio Cortijo Ocaña. Woodbridge, Suffolk (U.K.): Tamesis, 2006, pp. 309-16.
DICTIONARY AND ENCYCLOPEDIA ENTRIES:
[1980] «Bretão, Ciclo.» In Grande Dicionário da Literatura Portuguesa e de Teoria Literária. Ed. João Cochofel. Lisboa: Iniciativas Editoriais, vol. 2, pp. 148-55.
[1982] «Arthurian Literature, Spanish and Portuguese.» In Dictionary of the Middle Ages. Ed. Joseph R. Strayer. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, vol. 1, pp. 575-76.
[1986] Entries in The Arthurian Encyclopedia. Ed. Norris J. Lacy. New York: Garland. 2nd ed. The New Arthurian Encyclopedia. Ed. Norris J. Lacy. New York: Garland, 1991; rpt. 1996. «Baladro del Sabio Merlín, El,» p. 31; «Blandín de Cornualla,» p. 40; «Carta enviada por Hiseo la Brunda a Tristán; Respuesta de Tristán,» p. 73; «Demanda do Santo Graal, A,» p. 114; «Estoria del noble Vaspasiano, La,» pp. 146-47; «Ferreira de Vasconcelos, Jorge,» pp. 150-51; «Fructo de los tiempos,» pp. 169-70; «Gras, Mossèn,» p. 214; «Josep Abaramatia, Livro de,» p. 254; «Lais de Bretanha,» p. 268; «Lançarote de Lago,» pp. 268-69; «Persefores, Historia del noble rey,» p. 359; «Salazar, Lope García de,» p. 395; «Silva, António da, Mestre de Gramática,» p. 418; «Spanish and Portuguese Arthurian Literature,» pp. 425-28; «Sumario de historia de los reyes de Bretaña,» p. 436; «Tablante de Ricamonte,» p. 441; «Torroella, Guillem,» p. 458; «Zifar (or Cifar), Libro del caballero,» p. 533.
