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Luce López-Baralt (born 1944, San Juan, Puerto Rico) is a prominent Puerto Rican scholar and essayist[1] and a professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature at the University of Puerto Rico.[2][3]

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Luce López-Baralt
Born (1944-08-21) 21 August 1944 (age 79)
San Juan, Puerto Rico
Alma materBS University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus (1966)
MA New York University in Madrid (1968)
PhD Harvard University (1974)
Board member ofAcademia Puertorriqueña de la Lengua Española
Puerto Rican Endowment for the Humanities
International Association of Hispanists
Spouse
Arturo Echavarría
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(m. 1972⁠–⁠2020)​
RelativesMercedes López-Baralt
Academic background
ThesisSan Juan de la Cruz y la concepción semítica del lenguaje poético [Saint John of the Cross and the Semitic conception of poetic language] (1974)
Academic advisorsRaimundo Lida
Stephen Gilman
Academic work
DisciplineLiterature
Sub-disciplineHispanic Studies and Comparative literature
Institutions
Notable works"Saint John of the Cross and Ibn 'Arabi: The Heart or Qalb as the Translucid and Ever-Changing Mirror of God (2000)

Academic career[edit]

Many of her books and articles present for discussion the mystical literature and religious practices of Spain, renaissance and medieval (including al-Andalus), i.e., both Christian and Muslim. She acknowledges the influence of the early 20th century Spanish Arabist, the Rev. Miguel Asín Palacios, among others. In particular, she has followed traces of the trail that show a fruitful interaction between Muslims and Christians in Iberia, e.g., as it affected San Juan de la Cruz and Santa Teresa de Ávila. Evidently, this trail continues on, eventually leading also to the Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges. She has also done work on the literature of Puerto Rico.

Often serving as a visiting professor, she has taught in at various universities in South America, North America, Europe, North Africa, the Middle East, and South Asia. Her works have been translated into French, English, German, Dutch, Arabic, Urdu, and Persian.

In November 1998, the University of Puerto Rico held a Congress in honor of Luce López-Baralt and her sister, also an academic, Mercedes López-Baralt (anthropologist, historian, and literary critic).

Professor Luce López-Baralt received her Bachelor of Arts in Hispanic Studies from the Universidad de Puerto Rico, her Masters in Romance Literature from New York University, and her Doctorate in Romance Literature from Harvard University. She also did post-doctorate work at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, and at the American University of Beirut.

Personal life[edit]

In 2014 she was honored by Felipe VI, who made her Commander by Number of the Order of Isabella the Catholic, which grants her the distinction of using the honorary prefix "Her Most Illustrious Lord". The investiture ceremony, presided by the consul-general Tomás Rodríguez-Pantoja Márquez, and was held at Casa de España on October 31.[4]

Selected publications[edit]

Books[edit]

Other Books:

  • Collection: Mélanges, études réunies et préfacées par Luce López-Baralt (Tunis: Zaghouan 2001), edited by Abdeljelil Temimi.
  • Collection/Collaboration: Luce López-Baralt, Mercedes López-Baralt, & William Mejias Lopez (editor), Moradas de la Paloma. Homenaje a Luce y Mercedes López Baralt (Universidad de Puerto Rico 1995), 2 volumes, 1890 pages.
  • Collaboration: Luce López-Baralt & Lorenzo Piera Delgado, El sol a medianoche. La experiencia mística. Tradición y actualidad (Madrid: Trotta 1995); a comparative study universal in scope.
  • Translation: Ahmad b. Muhammad al-Nuri de Bagdad, Moradas de los corazones [Maqama al-qulub] (Madrid 1999); i.e., Stations of the Heart, said to have been an [indirect] source of the mystical symbolism of seven concentric castles employed by St. Teresa of Avila; also see López-Baralt, Islam in Spanish Literature (1985, 1992) at 107–115, esp. 110.
  • Editors (with Eulogio Pacho): San Juan de la Cruz, Obra completa (Madrid: Alianza 1994), 2 volumes.

Articles[edit]

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Figueredo, Danilo H. (2005). Encyclopedia of Caribbean Literature: Volume I, A-L. Greenwood. p. 466. ISBN 978-0313327438.
  2. ^ "Luce López-Baralt: "Ante el 'Quijote' y San Juan de la Cruz siento el vértigo de asomarme a un abismo sin fin"". abc (in Spanish). 2016-11-17. Retrieved 2019-11-26.
  3. ^ "Catedrática puertorriqueña recibirá honoris causa por universidad española". www.efe.com (in Spanish). Retrieved 2019-11-26.
  4. ^ "Luce López Baralt recibe la Encomienda de la Orden de Isabel la Católica" [Luce López Baralt receives the Commendation by Number of the Order of Isabel la Católica]. Association of Academies of the Spanish Language (in Spanish). 2014-10-31. Archived from the original on 2014-11-10. Retrieved 2021-02-05.

External links[edit]

source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luce_L%C3%B3pez-Baralt

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