Caroline Brown Bourland
Caroline Brown Bourland (born June 4, 1871 in Peoria (Illinois) , † February 28, 1956 in Wisconsin ) was an American Romance philologist and Hispanist .
Life
Caroline Brown Bourland graduated from Smith College in 1893. She then taught English literature, French and Latin at high schools in Pueblo, Colorado and Peoria, Illinois . From 1898 she studied as a doctoral student at the Sorbonne and at Bryn Mawr College . There she received her doctorate in 1902 with the thesis Boccaccio and the Decameron in Castilian and Catalan Literature (New York / Paris 1905).
Caroline B. Bourland was Professor of French and Spanish at Smith College from 1902 to 1913. After setting up her own Spanish Department, she was Professor of Spanish from 1913 to 1939. She was co-editor of Smith College studies in modern languages (with Ernst H. Mensel, Howard R. Patch, Margaret Rooke and Albert Schinz ).
Caroline Brown Bourland was the sister of the novelist Benjamin Parsons Bourland .
Works
- (Ed.) Juan Ruiz de Alarcón y Mendoza, Las paredes oyen , New York 1914
- The Short story in Spain in the seventeenth century, with a Bibliography of the Novela from 1576 to 1700 , Northampton, Mass. 1927, New York 1973
- (Eds.) Serafín y Joaquín Álvarez Quintero, La reja. Comedia en un acto , Chicago 1927
- (Ed. With Edith Helman ) Vida y hazañas de Juan Belmonte torero , New York 1939
- (Eds. With Hélène Cattanès, Paul G. Grahan, Howard R. Patch, Margaret Rooke) Essays contributed in honor of President William Allan Neilson , Northampton, Mass. 1939-1940
- The Case of Sancho de Almazán and Juan de la Cámara versus the Crown of Castile and the Town council of Arenas, 1514 , Northampton, Mass. 1947
- The Guild of St. Ambrose, or Schoolmasters' guild of Antwerp, 1529-1579 , Northampton, Mass. 1951
Web links
- Literature by and about Caroline Brown Bourland in the WorldCat bibliographic database
- Literature by and about Caroline Brown Bourland in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)
- http://sophia.smith.edu/blog/smithipedia/faculty-staff/bourland-caroline-brown/
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bourland, Caroline Brown |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American Romance Studies and Hispanic Studies |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 4, 1871 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Peoria (Illinois) |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 28, 1956 |
| Place of death | Wisconsin |