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About Katherine M. Gatto

Katherine Gyékényesi Gatto is Professor of Spanish at John Carroll University whose scholarly research is in medieval Spanish literature, Hispanic women writers and filmmakers, and Hungarian and Hungarian-American literature and film. Her most recent publication is Spain's Literary Legacy: Studies in Spanish Literature and Culture From the Middle Ages to the Nineteenth Century (2005), which she edited and to which she contributed an essay on medieval medical views of women in the Lapidario of Alfonso X, the Learned. Currently she is extending and broadening a number of articles she has published on the Argentine director, María Luisa Bemberg, into a book length manuscript, entitled Solo Tango: The Feminist Films of María Luisa Bemberg.

Positions

Present Professor of Spanish, Department of Classical & Modern Languages & Cultures, John Carroll University
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Honors and Awards

  • Chairperson, Dept. of Classical & Modern Languages & Cultures, 1990-1997
  • Lucrecia Culicchia Award for Teaching Excellence, 2001
  • George E. Grauel Faculty Research Fellowship; 1980, 1994, 2001, 2007
  • JCU Summer Research Fellowship; 1994, 2000, 2004, 2006
  • Council for International Exchange of Scholars Nominee for Fulbright Research Grant to Hungary, 1992-1993
  • (N.E.H.) National Endowment for the Humanities Institute on Alfonsine Contributions to Medieval Spanish Literature and Culture, University of Kentucky, 1990
  • (N.E.H.) National Endowment for the Humanities Institute on Medieval Spain, Fordham University, 1987
  • Exxon Education Foundation Grant, Workshop for the Development of Foreign Language and Literature Programs, MLA Convention, Los Angeles, 1982
  • Fulbright Hays Research Scholar, Spain, 1972-1973

Contact Information

Email: gatto@jcu.edu
Phone: 216 397-4672
Office no.: O’Malley Center 143


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