Henry Sullivan, Tulane University

Henry Sullivan

Emeritus Professor

Education

PhD, 1970, Harvard University

Biography

Henry Wells Sullivan was educated at the Queen's College, Oxford and Harvard University. He is the author of Juan del Encina (1976); Tirso de Molina & the Drama of the Counter Reformation (1976); Calderón in the German Lands and the Low Countries: His Reception and Influence, 1654-1980 (1983); The Beatles With Lacan: Rock 'n' Roll as Requiem for the Modern Age (1995); Grotesque Purgatory: A Study of Cervantes's Don Quixote, Part II (1996); and The Poems of Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer: A Metrical, Linear Translation (2002). He is a former Guggenheim Fellow (1985), Alexander von Humboldt Fellow (1978-80), twice NEH Fellow Junior 1976; Senior 1999), a former Visiting Fellow at Clare Hall College, Cambridge (1995-96), and alternate for the ACLS Senior Fellowship (2003). Currently he is working on a micro-history of cultural relations between Spain and the Kingdom of Bohemia from the Late Middle Ages to the end of the Thirty Years' War, entitled When Two Golden Worlds Collide: Bohemia &.the Fall of the Spanish European Empire, 1576-1700. He is also editing The Complete Original Poems of Henry Wells Sullivan, 1960-2005 and has authored eight dramas in English & Czech since 1999.