Homero Castillo

Homero Castillo (born December 7, 1918 in Valparaíso , † January 7, 1980 in Davis ) was an American Romance and Hispanic scholar of Chilean origin.

Life

Castillo completed a liberal arts degree in Valparaíso in 1944 and went to the United States. He taught Spanish at St. Louis University and Northwestern University . In 1953 he received his doctorate from the University of Chicago with the work Mariano Latorre , cuentista y novelista de Chile . He was Professor of Romance Languages at the University of Iowa from 1964 to 1966 and Professor of Spanish at the University of California, Davis from 1966 until his death .

(Ed.) Relatos humorísticos , New York 1956
(with Raúl Silva Castro ) Historia bibliografica de la novela Chilena , Charlottesville, Va./Mexiko 1961
El criollismo en la novelística chilena. Huellas, modalidades y perfiles , Mexico 1962
La literatura chilena en los Estados Unidos de América , Santiago de Chile 1963 (bibliography)
(Ed.) Poetas modernistas hispanoamericanos. Antología , Waltham, Mass. 1966
(Ed.) Estudios críticos sobre el modernismo , Madrid 1968, 1974

personal data
SURNAME	Castillo, Homero
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American Romance philologist and Hispanist of Chilean descent
DATE OF BIRTH	December 7, 1918
PLACE OF BIRTH	Valparaíso
DATE OF DEATH	January 7, 1980
Place of death	Davis