Education:

Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1984

M.A., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1978

B.A., Parkland Junior College (Champaign) and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1975

Diploma de Estudios Hispánicos, Universidad de Barcelona, 1971

Course Offerings:

Span 401 - Topics in Golden Age Literature

Span 402 - Don Quixote

Span 399 - Special Topics: The Staging of Golden Age Spanish Drama

Span 399 - Special Topics: Society & Alienation in Golden Age Spanish Literature

Span 399 - Special Topics: Spanish Pastoral Literature

Primary Research Interests:

European Emblem Literature

          Grupo de Investigación sobre Literatura Emblemática Española.

          Studiolum

Spanish Golden Age comedia

Spanish Golden Age Prose

Medieval Spanish Medicine

Spanish Sentimental Fiction

Recent Publications:

Cull, John T. "The Baroque at Play: Homiletic and Pedagogical Emblems in Francisco Garau and Other Spanish Golden Age Preachers." In Writing for the Eyes in the Spanish Golden Age. Ed. Frederick A. de Armas. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 2004. 237-56.

---. "(Be)lying Fame in Spanish Golden Age Literature." In 'Corónente tus hazañas': Studies in Honor of John Jay Allen. Ed. Michael McGrath. Newark, DE: Juan de la Cuesta Hispanic Studies, 2005. 77-99.

---. "On the Trail of Hispanic Emblem Studies." With Antonio Bernat Vistarini. Emblem Scholarship. Directions and Developments. A Tribute to Gabriel Hornstein. Ed. Peter M. Daly. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2005. 25-50.

---. "Los espacios de la maravilla en los libros de pastores españoles." In ‘Loca ficta’: Los espacios de la maravilla en la Edad Media y Siglo de Oro. Actas del Coloquio Internacional, Pamplona, Universidad de Navarra, Abril, 2002. Ed. Ignacio Arellano. Biblioteca Áurea Hispánica 26. Frankfurt & Madrid: Vervuert & Iberoamericana, 2003. 165-188.

---. "In the Beginning Was... the Word? Calderón and Conventions of Golden Age Play Beginnings." Bulletin of the Comediantes 54.2 (2002): 313-37.