Remembering Juan Marichal: An Online Edition of His Works

Juan Marichal (1922-2010), Smth Professor of French and Spanish Languages and Literatures at Harvard University, was a master teacher and a thinker of importance to anyone who has studied modern Spanish literature and culture. Exiled from Spain, Marichal taught in Harvard's Department of Romance Languages and Literatures for over thirty years until his retirement in 1988.

Two of his disciples, Profs. Julia Rodríguez Cela (author of a biographical study) and Alicia Parras Parras of the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, will remember Juan Marichal through his family photographs, research about his life, and through the presentation of the online edition of his works edited by Beatriz Morán Gortari under the directorship of his son, the historian Carlos Marichal. Christopher Maurer, who was a colleague of Juan Marichal at Harvard, will introduce the event.

Speakers: Julia Rodríguez Cela. Assistant Professor, School of Communication, Complutense University of Madrid; Alicia Parras Parras. Adjunct Professor, School of Communication, Complutense University of Madrid.

Chair: Christopher Maurer. Professor of Spanish, Boston University.

Sponsors: RCC.