Newsletter
Cervantes Society of
America
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ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Warmest, if belated, New Year's Greetings!
As is customary, we take advantage of the Winter Newsletter to publish the
minutes of the CSA meetings that took place at the recent MLA Convention
in New York and also to publish the results of the recent Executive Council
elections and the Treasurer's Report (see below).
Among the items of importance in the minutes,
we would like to mention the decision to raise the dues/subscription rates
that was made at the Executive Council meeting. Increased costs and what
appears to be a sluggish cash flow have necessitated this increase. The new
rates for members are effective immediately and are as follows: (1) individual
regular membership is now $20 per year; (2) couples $30 per year; and (3)
students $10 per year. The new subscription rate for libraries will go into
effect with the 1994 publication year and will be $40 per year.
Once again, we remind you that the year number
next to your name on the mailing label indicates the year up to and including
which you have paid, according to our records. We implore you to bring your
dues status up to date (we will cheerfully accept payment of dues in arrears
at the old—$17, $9, etc.—rates). You may pay for multiple future
years, of course, and if you find that our records are in error, please write
and let us know. Thank you.
| Minutes of the Executive Council Meeting | 27 December 1992 |
In attendance were: H. Percas de Ponsetti,
D. Finello, D. Eisenberg, M. McGaha, J. Allen, and W. Clamurro.
The meeting was called to order at 7:35pm by
the Vice President, Jay Allen. The minutes of the previous meeting (28 December
1991) were read and approved.
The Sec.-Treas. reported the results of the
recent CSA Executive Council Delegate elections. The winners are as follows:
Regional delegates: James Iffland (Northeast); Harry Sieber (Southeast);
George Haley (Midwest); Amy Williamsen (Southwest); Adrienne Martín
(Pacific coast). At-Large delegates: Edward Friedman, Marcia Welles,
Anne Cruz, James Parr, and Robert ter Horst. The Sec.-Treas. has expressed,
on behalf of the Society, thanks to all who allowed their names to be put
in nomination.
The Treasurer's Report for the calendar year
1992 was presented (see Report at the end of this Newsletter), and the
Sec.-Treas. commented on the problems of rising costs for various items,
especially mailing and the expenses associated with publishing the journal.
M. McGaha moved that subscription rates for
libraries be increased from $20 per year to $40 as of the 1994 publication
year. The motion was seconded by H. Percas and was approved unanimously.
D. Eisenberg moved to increase the
membership/subscription rates, to be effective as of the publication of the
Winter Newsletter, as follows: regular members, from $17 to $20 per year;
couples, from $28 to $30; and students, from $9 to $10. H. Percas seconded
the motion and it was approved unanimously.
It was suggested that we encourage more people
to join the Society and especially to encourage European Cervantists to consider
joining.
J. Allen announced that Prof. Geoffrey Stagg
has been invited and has agreed to be the guest speaker at the 1993 meeting
of the CSA, which will take place concurrent with the MLA Convention to be
held in Toronto, December 1993.
Prof. Allen brought up the question of possible
topics for the 1993 CSA panel (to be held during the MLA Convention). It
was suggested that there be an “open topic” format; likewise, it
was suggested that panelists be encouraged to submit their presentations
to our journal.
D. Eisenberg announced that J. M. Casasayas
is starting a new journal devoted to research on Cervantes and that he has
asked if he might be allowed to publish in that journal the abstracts of
essays published in Cervantes. Discussion ensued. D. Eisenberg moved
to allow such republication. H. Percas seconded the motion, and it was passed
unanimously.
It was noted that the special committee formed
to study the problem of continuity in the membership of the CSA Executive
Council (e.g. the possible staggering of terms for the members of the Council)
had not reported. It was noted that, given the illness of our current President,
Ruth El Saffar, there had been some breakdown in communication with the members
of the committee. It was suggested that the question be readdressed in the
future.
The meeting was adjourned at 8:10pm.
| Minutes of the Open Business Meeting | Monday, 28 December 1992 |
The meeting was called to order by Vice President
J. Allen at 1:53pm. J. Allen informed those present of the current state
of health of the President, Ruth El Saffar; a get-well card was circulated
for people to sign and send their best wishes.
The Sec.-Treas. gave his reports, the election
results and the Treasurer's Report, as presented at the Executive Council.
In addition, he mentioned that several members had failed to follow the
directions on the ballot, concerning the voting the in regional contests,
and had (impermissibly) voted in all regions, rather than only in
their own geographical region, as instructed. In such cases, the Sec.-Treas.
had endeavored to determine by post mark, etc., the place from which the
ballot had been sent and to count only the vote for the candidate pertaining
to that region.
M. McGaha, the Editor of Cervantes,
gave a brief Editor's Report. It was noted that the number of submissions
to the journal had recently diminished somewhat, and Prof. McGaha encouraged
the members and others to submit essays for consideration.
Prof. Allen announced that Prof. Geoffrey Stagg
would be next year's invited speaker.
D. Eisenberg again asked about the activities
of the special committee to study the question of continuity and overlap
of membership on the Executive Council. Prof. E. Rivers, one of the committee
members, was present and noted that no chairman had ever been named; thus,
the committee had never met or conducted business. Again, it was suggested
that this issue be given attention in the future.
Prof. Monique Joly, of the Université
de Lille III, gave the invited lecture. Her presentation was entitled
“Sobre la presencia de la poesía en ‘La gitanilla’
y ‘La ilustre fregona.’”
The session concluded at around 3:15pm.
News Notes from All Over
From Pomona College, M. McGaha reports that the Fifth Annual Southern California
Cervantes Symposium will be held on April 17, 1993. Its presentations will
include the following: “Cervantes' Interludes and the Poetics
of Transgression,” Anne Cruz (UC, Irvine); “La letrilla y el baile
de El viejo celoso,” Enrique Martínez-López (UC,
Santa Barbara); “Estreno de La gran sultana: teatro de lo otro,
amor, y humor,” Susana Hernández-Araico (Cal. State Polytechnic
U.); “El misterio del Celoso extremeño,” Helena Percas
de Ponseti (Grinnell Coll.); “Cide Hamete Redividus,” James A.
Parr (UC, Riverside); “Reading In and Out of Don Quixote,”
Michael Kidd (Cornell); “The Paradox of Self-Knowledge in Don Quixote's
Encounter with Don Diego de Miranda,” Charles Presberg (USC); “Lunar
Pigs Trash Crazed Green Cultists (Don Quixote II: 56-58),” Clark
Colahan (Whitman Coll.); “El detalle de una ‘historia verdadera’:
Don Quijote y Bernal Díaz,” María E. Mayer (Whittier
Coll.); and “Petrarch Disenchanted: the blasón in Don
Quixote and Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz,” Lisa Rabin (George
Mason U.).
From Indiana U., Ed Friedman reports that the inaugural issue of the Indiana
Journal of Hispanic Literatures is devoted to Golden Age literature and
is entitled “‘Otro cantará’: Approaches to the Spanish
Baroque.” Two of its articles are devoted to Don Quijote: Anne
J. Cruz, “Don Quixote's Disappearing Act: Structural Unity and Character
Transformation in Don Quixote,” 83-99, and James A. Parr, “The
Role of Cide Hamete Benengeli: Between Renaissance Paradox and Baroque
Emblematics,” 101-13. [Other contributors are William R. Blue, Carroll
B. Johnson, Robert ter Horst, Francisco J. Sánchez and Nicholas
Spadaccini, Frederick A. de Armas, Malcolm K. Read, Javier Herrero, Gridley
McKim-Smith and Marcia Welles, and Edward H. Friedman.] Individual subscriptions
to IJHL are $15 per year, $25 for two years. Send all correspondence
to IJHL, Dept. of Spanish & Portuguese, Indiana U., Bloomington,
IN 47405-6601. Ed. Friedman will direct an NEH Summer Institute for School
Teachers on “Don Quixote: The Beginning and the Ends of the
Novel” at Indiana U., from June 28 the August 6, 1993.
Jim Parr presented the fall lecture, “Don Quixote: On Scribes
and Inscription,” in the Distinguished Scholars Series of the Dept.
of Foreign Languages at the U. of Delaware on Oct. 15, 1992.
Dan Eisenberg informs us that two grants of 25,000 pesetas are available
for persons interested in attending the November, 1993, meeting of the
Asociación de Cervantistas to take place in Alcalá. Anyone
interested should contact Prof. José María Casasayas, Apartado
de Correos 1181, 07080 Palma de Mallorca, Spain.
From UC, Santa Barbara, J. B. Avalle-Arce reports that in July of 1992 he
was solemnly invested a Doctor Litterarum Honoris Causa by the Universidad
de Castilla-La Mancha, at the Convento de Dominicos in Almagro, in recognition
of his contributions to Cervantine studies. In the summer of 1992 he was
made an Associate of the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, UCLA.
On behalf of the CSA, I warmly congratulate my friend and former teacher.
From Lafayette, Louisiana, Burton Raffel reminded me of my error in the last
Newsletter: the Jarvis translation of Don Quixote is hardly
“new”—but the edition by Prof. E. C. Riley will be. Meantime,
Prof. Raffel's own translation of DQ, with an introduction by Diana
de Armas Wilson is due to appear soon.
Last (for now) but not least, the Dept. of Classical & Modern Languages
of Texas Tech U. (Lubbock, TX) announces a Conference on Renaissance and
Baroque Spanish poetry to be held on November 11-13, 1993, in Lubbock. Proposals
should be submitted by April 15, 1993, to Prof. Ted E. McVay, Dept.
of Classical & Modern Languages, Texas Tech U., Lubbock TX 79409-2071.
Phone: 806-742-1565; FAX: 806-742-3306.
| Balance Brought Forward | $ 6,552.79 | ||
| 1992 Income | |||
| Subscriptions, offprints, back issues | $7,163.95 | ||
| Interest (as of 21 January 1992) | 27.31 | ||
| Total Income | $ 7,191.26 | ||
| 1992 Expenditures | |||
| MLA expenses (1991) | $ 97.71 | ||
| Council of Editors of Learned Journals | 60.00 | ||
| Typesetting Vol. XI no. 2 (balance) | 480.85 | ||
| Typesetting Vol. XII no. 1 | 1,704.75 | ||
| Typesetting Vol. XII no. 2 | 2,704.05 | ||
| Printing Vol. XI no. 2 | 1,157.65 | ||
| Printing Vol. XII no. 1 | 1,367.18 | ||
| Mailing Vol. XI no. | 2 ,423.94 | ||
| Mailing Vol. XII no. 1 443.01 | 443.01 | ||
| Mailing Vol. XII no. 2 (to date) | 38.75 | ||
| Office supplies & expenses (including Newsletters) | 451.34 | ||
| Telephone | 53.16 | ||
| 459.93 | |||
| Cancelled postal money order | 17.00 | ||
| Total Expenses | $ 9,293.19 | ||
| Balance (December 16, 1992) | $ 4,450.86 | ||
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