Germán Gullón

Under the chairmanship of Russell P. Sebold, and the presence of scholars like Samuel Armistead, Gonzalo Sobejano and Paul M. Lloyd, the Penn Spanish Department rose to prominence in the U.S. and became known for its faculty's ability to combine research based on philological knowledge with theoretical criticism.

At Penn Gullón obtained a Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching, appointment as Professor of Spanish Literature, and worked for more than fifteen years as associate editor of the Hispanic Review.

Later he moved on to the University of California(Davis), where he was chairman of the Department of Spanish and Classics and became a colleague of such distinguished Hispanists as Samuel Armistead and Antonio Sánchez Romeralo.

Among the honours obtained by Gullón are an Honorary MA from the University of Pennsylvania, different scholarships, the American Philosophical Society and the Guggenheim.

The Guggenheim allowed him to spend a year in Spain researching what soon would be one of his most celebrated books, La novela moderna en España.