Clark Colahan

Clark Colahan is the author of ten wide-ranging books, a collaboration with Spanish National Television, and a hundred articles on Spanish, Latin American, French and Neo-Latin Literature, as well as local history of New Mexico, California and Oregon. Raised in California, alumnus of Pomona College, with a doctorate from the University of New Mexico, he taught for thirty years at Whitman College as Anderson Professor of Humanities. He has focused on Renaissance humanism, church reform and the roots of the picaresque (Juan Maldonado and Díaz de Luco), Sephardic wisdom literature (Shem Tov Ardutiel/Santob de Carrión), two defiant mystics (Sor María de Agreda and Miguel de Quintana), Don Quixote in Britain (Theobald and Wadham Whitchurch), his translation of Cervantes’ last novel (Persiles and Sigismunda) and most recently in Spanish, Don Quixote in France (Mme. Le Givre de Richebourg, Mme d’Aulnoy, Florian, Filleau de St. Martin, Challe, and Rousseau). He is passionate about his avocations, playing Irish music on whistles and contradancing.