Ivan Albert Schulman (October 4, 1931 – August 3, 2020)[1] was Professor Emeritus of Spanish & Comparative Literature at the University of Illinois.
Schulman received his undergraduate degree from Brooklyn College and his PhD from the University of California at Los Angeles.
Schulman was Chair of the Department of Romance Languages and founder and Chair of the Latin American Studies Program at Washington University in St. Louis, Chair of the Department of Romance Languages at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, Graduate Research Professor and Director of the Center for Latin American Studies at the University of Florida, Professor of Spanish at Wayne State University, Head of the Department of Spanish, Italian and Portuguese and Richard G. and Carole J. Cline University Scholar at the University of Illinois, and Jordan Davidson Visiting Distinguished Chair of Humanities at Florida International University.
[3] Schulman wrote major works of literary and cultural criticism on Spanish American Modernism and the Cuban poet José Martí.
[4][5][6] Schulman was the recipient of a number of awards and honors for his scholarship including a Guggenheim Fellowship (1968), a National Endowment for the Humanities Grant (1983), the title of Profesor Honorario of the Universidad de la Habana (1995), and the Venezuelan Orden de Andrés Bello [es] (1996).