Biography
Diana de Armas Wilson was born in 1934. [1] Her father was a Spanish national from the island of La Gomera who emigrated to the United States with a Cuban cousin's birth certificate,bypassing the Immigration Act of 1924. [2] She attended Cornell University,where she obtained her BA,and the University of Denver,where she obtained a PhD. [3] Her doctoral dissertation Cervantes' "Persiles y Sigismunda":an allegory of the couple (1981) was supervised by Leland H. Chambers. [4]
She later began working at the University of Denver,where she was part of the Department of English. [5] Originally a full professor at the university, [6] she eventually became a professor emerita. [3]
In 1991,she published Allegories of Love ,a study of the Cervantes novel Los trabajos de Persiles y Sigismunda . [7] She later published another book Cervantes,the Novel,and the New World (2000),focusing on Cervantes' relationship with the New World. [8] She also co-edited a Cervantes volume, Quixotic Desire (1993). [9]
She was the translator for University of Notre Dame Press's 2011 edition of Antonio de Sosa [ es ]'s 1612 Topography of Algiers, [10] with a second volume planned. [3] She was editor for W. W. Norton &Company's 2020 version of Don Quixote . [11] Her Spanish-language festschrift,Cervantes entre amigos (edited by Conxita Domènech and Andrés Lema-Hincapié),was published by Juan de la Cuesta Hispanic Monographs in 2024. [12]
She has four daughters,including classical scholar Andrea Nightingale. [13] [14] She was a close friend of fellow Cervantes scholar Ruth El Saffar,who had to dictate the introduction of her book Rapture Encaged due to being hospitalized during the last year of her life. [15]
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