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Diana de Armas Wilson
Born1934 (age 91–92)
OccupationLiterary scholar
Children4 (including Andrea Nightingale)
Academic background
Alma mater
ThesisCervantes' "Persiles y Sigismunda": an allegory of the couple (1981)
Doctoral advisorLeland H. Chambers
Academic work
Sub-disciplineCervantes
InstitutionsUniversity of Denver

Diana de Armas Wilson (born 1934) is an American literary scholar who specializes in the work of the Spanish author Miguel de Cervantes. She was author of Allegories of Love (1991) and Cervantes, the Novel, and the New World (2000).

Biography

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Diana de Armas Wilson was born in 1934.[1] Her father was a Spanish national from the island of La Gomera who emigrated to the United States with a Cuban cousin's birth certificate, bypassing the Immigration Act of 1924.[2] She attended Cornell University, where she obtained her BA, and the University of Denver, where she obtained a PhD.[3] Her doctoral dissertation Cervantes' "Persiles y Sigismunda": an allegory of the couple (1981) was supervised by Leland H. Chambers.[4]

She later began working at the University of Denver, where she was part of the Department of English.[5] Originally a full professor at the university,[6] she eventually became a professor emerita.[3]

In 1991, she published Allegories of Love, a study of the Cervantes novel Los trabajos de Persiles y Sigismunda.[7] She later published another book Cervantes, the Novel, and the New World (2000), focusing on Cervantes' relationship with the New World.[8] She also co-edited a Cervantes volume, Quixotic Desire (1993).[9]

She was the translator for University of Notre Dame Press's 2011 edition of Antonio de Sosa [es]'s 1612 Topography of Algiers,[10] with a second volume planned.[3] She was editor for W. W. Norton & Company's 2020 version of Don Quixote.[11] Her Spanish-language festschrift, Cervantes entre amigos (edited by Conxita Domènech and Andrés Lema-Hincapié), was published by Juan de la Cuesta Hispanic Monographs in 2024.[12]

She has four daughters, including classical scholar Andrea Nightingale.[13][14] She was a close friend of fellow Cervantes scholar Ruth El Saffar, who had to dictate the introduction of her book Rapture Encaged due to being hospitalized during the last year of her life.[15]

Bibliography

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Notes

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  1. ^ Reviews of this book: [16][17][18]
  2. ^ Reviews of this book: [19][20][21]

References

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  1. ^ "Wilson, Diana de Armas, 1934-". authorities.loc.gov. Retrieved September 3, 2025.
  2. ^ Wilson, Diana de Armas (November 10, 2015). "My Father's Fake Green Card". HuffPost. Retrieved September 3, 2025.
  3. ^ a b c De Armas Wilson, Diana (2021). "Cervantes in/on the Americas". Oxford Academic. pp. 572–584. doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198742913.013.28. ISBN 978-0-19-874291-3. Retrieved September 3, 2025.
  4. ^ Armas Wilson, Diana. Cervantes' "Persiles y Sigismunda": an allegory of the couple (PhD thesis). University of Denver. ProQuest 303137820.
  5. ^ "Announcements and Comments". Colby Quarterly. 32 (4): 215. 1996.
  6. ^ "Cervantes, the Novel, and the New World". Oxford University Press. Retrieved September 3, 2025.
  7. ^ "Allegories of Love: Cervantes's Persiles and Sigismunda". Princeton University Press. April 19, 2016. Retrieved September 3, 2025.
  8. ^ Wilson, Diana de Armas (December 7, 2000). "Cervantes, the Novel, and the New World". Oxford Academic.
  9. ^ Larson, Catherine (September 1994). "El Saffar, Ruth Anthony, and Diana de Armas Wilson, eds. Quixotic Desire: Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Cervantes. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1993. xv + 332 pp". Cervantes. 14 (2): 167–169. doi:10.3138/cervantes.14.2.167. ISSN 0277-6995.
  10. ^ "Early Modern Dialogue with Islam". University of Notre Dame. Retrieved September 3, 2025.
  11. ^ "Don Quijote". wwnorton.com. Retrieved September 3, 2025.
  12. ^ ""Cervantes entre amigos: Ensayos en homenaje de Diana de Armas Wilson"". Linguatext. Retrieved September 3, 2025.
  13. ^ Wilson, Diana de Armas (2014). Allegories of Love: Cervantes's Persiles and Sigismunda. Princeton University Press. p. x. ISBN 978-1-4008-6179-8.
  14. ^ Nightingale, Andrea (2021). Philosophy and Religion in Plato's Dialogues. Cambridge University Press. p. x. ISBN 978-1-108-83730-9.
  15. ^ Wilson, Diana de Armas (1994). "In Memoriam: Ruth Anthony El Saffar (1941-1994)". Cervantes: Bulletin of the Cervantes Society of America. XIV (2). Retrieved September 2, 2025 – via Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes.
  16. ^ "Allegories of Love: Cervantes's "Persiles and Sigismunda," (review)". Philosophy and Literature. 16 (1): 228–229. April 1992. doi:10.1353/phl.1992.0044. ISSN 1086-329X.
  17. ^ Weiger, John G. (1994). "Review of Contradictory Subjects: Quevedo, Cervantes, and Seventeenth-Century Spanish Culture; Allegories of Love: Cervantes's Persiles and Sigismunda". Modern Philology. 91 (3): 363–369. doi:10.1086/392177. ISSN 0026-8232.
  18. ^ Williamsen, Amy R. (1994). "Review of Allegories of Love: Cervantes's Persiles and Sigismunda". Comparative Literature. 46 (4): 402–404. doi:10.2307/1771384. ISSN 0010-4124. JSTOR 1771384.
  19. ^ Fuchs, Barbara (2002). "Cervantes, the Novel, and the New World (review)". MLQ: Modern Language Quarterly. 63 (4): 537–539. doi:10.1215/00267929-63-4-537. ISSN 1527-1943.
  20. ^ Hart, Thomas R. (June 1, 2002). "Cervantes, the Novel and the New World". Hispanic Research Journal. 3 (2): 182–183. doi:10.1179/hrj.2002.3.2.182. ISSN 1468-2737.
  21. ^ Weller, Celia Elaine Richmond (October 2001). "Cervantes, the Novel, and the New World (review)". Philosophy and Literature. 25 (2): 376–379. doi:10.1353/phl.2001.0037. ISSN 1086-329X.
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