Stephen Gilman

Stephen Gilman (1917 – November 23, 1986) was an American Hispanist, known for his work on the 15th-century novel La Celestina.

Biography Gilman studied at Princeton University under Américo Castro and received his doctorate in 1943 with the work A critical analysis of the "Quijote apocrifo" of Alonso Fernández de Avellaneda (published in Spanish: "Cervantes y Avellaneda. Estudio de una imitación", Mexico City 1951, Ann Arbor 1987). After two years of military service, he was a Princeton assistant professor from 1946 to 1948. He went to Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio and was first an associate professor, then a full professor from 1950 to 1956. From 1957 until his retirement in 1985, he taught at Harvard University as a professor of Romance languages. In 1961, he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Francisco Márquez Villanueva, "Stephen Gilman", in: Nueva Revista de Filología Hispánica 35, 1987, pp. 1–4