Emma Susana Speratti-Piñero

Emma Susana Speratti-Piñero (born 1919 in Buenos Aires , † 1990 in Norton , Bristol County ) was an Argentine Romance and Hispanic scholar who worked in Mexico and the United States.

life and work

Emma Speratti studied in Buenos Aires with Pedro Henríquez Ureña , Raimundo Lida and María Rosa Lida de Malkiel . She went to Madrid in 1952 and to Mexico City in 1953 . There she received her doctorate in 1955. She taught literature at Mexico City College, then from 1959 to 1964 at the University of San Luis Potosí (City) , finally in 1964 at the Universidad de Sonora in Hermosillo . From there she went to the United States and taught at Wheaton College (Massachusetts) in Norton from 1965 until her death . She enjoyed a Henry Ford Fellowship (1969–1970) and a Guggenheim Fellowship (1971–1972).

Los americanismos en "Tirano Banderas" , in: De Filología 2, 3, 1950, pp. 225-291
(Ed.) Inca Garcilaso de la Vega , La Florida del Inca , Mexico / Buenos Aires 1956
with Ana María Barrenechea : La literatura fantástica en Argentina , Mexico 1957
(Ed.) Domingo Faustino Sarmiento , Facundo , Mexico 1957, 1972
La elaboración artística en Tirano Banderas , Mexico 1957 (dissertation on Valle-Inclán )
Jorge Luis Borges , San Luis Potosí (City) 1959 (22 pages)
(Ed.) Pedro Henríquez Ureña, Obra crítica , Mexico 1960, 1981, 2001 (preface by Jorge Luis Borges )
De sonata de otoño al esperpento. Aspectos del arte de Valle-Inclán , London 1968
El ocultismo en Valle-Inclán , London 1974
Pasos hallados en el reino de este mundo , Mexico 1981 ( Alejo Carpentier )

Antonio Alatorre: Emma Susana Speratti Piñero (1919-1990) . In: Nueva Revista de Filología Hispánica 39, 1991, pp. 657–664 ( digitized version )
Suma valleinclaniana , ed. by John P. Gabriele et al., Barcelona 1992 (commemorative)

personal data
SURNAME	Speratti-Piñero, Emma Susana
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Speratti-Piñero, Emma
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Argentine Romance and Hispanicist
DATE OF BIRTH	1919
PLACE OF BIRTH	Buenos Aires
DATE OF DEATH	1990
Place of death	Norton , Bristol County