Tulane University

Contact Info
hcalvo@tulane.edu

Degrees

• Licenciatura, Philosophy, Universidad de Los Andes, Santafé de Bogotá, Colombia, 1980
• M.A., Spanish and Spanish American Literature, University of Illinois, 1984
• Ph.D., Yale University, Spanish, 1990

Academic Experience

• Adjunct Assistant Professor, Duke University, 2002
• Assistant Professor, Princeton University, 1990-1996

Research & Teaching Specializations: Spanish American literary Baroque, social history of early modern print culture

Related Experience

• Director, The Latin American Library, Tulane University, 2003-
• Librarian for Latin America and Iberia, Perkins Library, Duke University, 1999-2002
• Interim Ibero-American and Caribbean Studies Bibliographer, Perkins Library, Duke Unviersity, 1997-1999
• Board of Directors, Fundacion Amistad, 1999-

Distinctions

• Summer Research Grants, Princeton University, 1992, 1993, 1994
• Research Fellow, John Carter Brown Library, Brown University, 1988
• Edward A. and Samuel C. Suisman Fellowship, Yale University, 1986-1987

Languages:

• Spanish
• French
• Portuguese

Selected Publications

• Forthcoming. “Crescent City Connections to Latin America: A History of the Latin American Library at Tulane University.” With Guillermo Náñez Falcón. Latin American Librarianship in the Twenty-first Century: Libraries, Collaborations and New Approaches. Gayle Williams and Jana Krentz, eds. Jefferson, NC: Mc Farland Publishing.
• 2018. “Unpublished Letters from Sor Juana’s Mentor, María Luisa Manrique de Lara y Gonzaga: Correspondence from The Latin American Library, Tulane University” SALALM LX Papers, New Orleans: SALALM.
• 2016. “Latin America.” A Companion to the History of the Book. 2nd revised edition. Edited by Simon Eliot and Jonathan Rose. Oxford, UK; New York, NY: Blackwell.
• 2015. Cartas de Lysi: La mecenas de sor Juana en correspondencia inédita. Co-author with Beatriz Colombi. Madrid: Iberoamericana-Vervuert; Mexico: Bonilla Editores.
• 2003. “The Politics of Print: The Historiography of the Book in Early Spanish America.” Book History. 5.