Biography:

Literary scholar; University professor. Born– December 6, 1925, Madrid, Spain. Parents– Camilio and Terese (Silverde) Ruiz-Fornells. Married– Cynthia Young, March 21, 1959. Education– University of Seville, B.A., 1944; International University in Menendez Pelayo, 1950; Official School of Journalism in Madrid, M.A., 1951; University of Madrid, M.A., 1953; Ph.D., 1958; University of Paris, Northwestern University. Served in the Spanish Army, 1949-1951; taught at the University of Madrid, 1950-1957; professor of Spanish, American Embassy, 1955-1957; McGill University, 1959-1961; University of South Carolina, 1961-1963; University of Alabama, 1963-1987; visiting professor at Washington University and at Mississippi State University.  Awarded professor emeritus status by the University of Alabama at his retirement in 1897. Member of Modern Language Association of America; European Association of Spanish Professors; American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese; South Atlantic Modern Language Association; AAUP. Received the Distinguished Service Award of the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese, 1986.

Source:

Contemporary Authors online and the University of Alabama Press Catalog.

Publication(s):

A Concordance to the Poetry of Leopoldo Panero. University, Ala.; University of Alabama Press, 1978.

Concordias delQuijote de Avellaneda.  Fundacion Universitaria Espanola, 1984.

Estudiantes Espanoles en los Estados Unidos …. Madrid; Association Cultural Hispano-Norteamericana, 1954.

Editor;

The United States and the Spanish World.  Sociedad General Espanola de Libreria.  1979.

United States Dissertations in Hispanic Languages and Literatures, 1967-1977.  University of Kentucky Press, 1981..

Joint_Editor:

Doctoral Dissertations in Hispanic Languages and Literature, 1876-1966:  The United States, Canada, and Puerto Rico.  University of Kentucky Press, 1970.

La Muralla. New York; D. Appleton, 1962. Doctorial Dissertations in Hispanic Languages and Literature, 1876-1976; Lexington, Ky.; University of Kentucky Press, 1970.

Compiler:

A Concordance to the Poetry of Gustavo Adolfo Bequer. University, Ala.; University of Alabama Press, 1970.

Las Concordancias del Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha. Madrid; Ediciones Cultura Hispanica, 1976.