Stephen Gilman (1917 in Chicago – November 23, 1986 in Cambridge, Massachusetts) was an American Hispanist, known for his work on the 15th-century novel La Celestina.
[1] 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.
[2] From 1957 until his retirement in 1985, he taught at Harvard University as a professor of Romance languages.