Paul Ilie
Paul Ilie (11 October 1932 – 18 July 2017) was an American literary scholar and critic in the fields of Hispanism, comparative literature, and the history of ideas.
Biography
Ilie, was born in Brooklyn, the third and youngest child of Abraham Ilie and Dora (née Smilovitz). His parents were Jewish immigrants from Romania. He attended Stuyvesant High School and Brooklyn College. After earning a bachelor’s degree in 1954, he obtained both his master’s and doctoral degrees in romance languages and literatures from Brown University in 1956 and 1959, respectively.
Thereafter, Ilie taught for many years at the University of Michigan. While there, he met his future wife, Marie-Laure Bouscaren, a native of Paris who was teaching French at the university on a Fulbright exchange fellowship. They married on February 28, 1969.
Ilie received a Guggenheim fellowship in 1965 to expand his studies in the field of Spanish and Portuguese literature. He also received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Council of Learned Societies, the Del Amo Foundation and the Horace Rackham Foundation.
In 1970, Paul Ilie accepted a guest professorship at Hebrew University of Jerusalem. In 1982, he joined the faculty of the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. He retired in 1997 as Professor Emeritus of Spanish and Comparative Literature.
He died at 84 years of age in Los Angeles.
Works
- La Novelística de Camilo José Cela (1963; expanded edition, 1978)
- Unamuno: An Existential View of Self and Society (1967)
- The Surrealist Mode in Spanish Literature (1968; expanded edition, 1972)
- Documents of the Spanish Vanguard (1969; editor)
- Literature and Inner Exile. Authoritarian Spain, 1939-1975 (1981)
- The Age of Minerva (1995)
- Volume I: Counter-Rational Reason in Eighteenth-Century Thought.
- Volume II: Cognitive Discontinuities in the Eighteenth Century: From Body to Mind in Biology and Art.
- The Grotesque Aesthetic in Spanish Literature, from the Golden Age to Modernism (2009)
External links
- 1932 births
- 2017 deaths
- American academics of Spanish literature
- American literary critics
- American people of Romanian-Jewish descent
- Stuyvesant High School alumni
- Brown University alumni
- Guggenheim Fellows
- Jewish American academics
- Jewish scholars
- Literary critics of Spanish
- University of Michigan faculty
- People from Brooklyn
- American writers of Romanian descent
