Rate My Professor Edmondo Michael Gerli

Edmondo Michael Gerli serves as Adjunct Professor in Iberian and Latin American Cultures at Stanford University for the 2025-26 academic year. He is Commonwealth Professor Emeritus of Spanish and Medieval Studies at the University of Virginia. Gerli earned his Ph.D. in Hispanic Languages and Literatures from UCLA in 1972. His research centers on the social, intellectual, and cultural history of the Western Mediterranean, including North Africa, spanning the Middle Ages through early modernity, with particular emphasis on medieval and Renaissance Romance literary and linguistic themes.

Gerli has authored approximately 200 publications and sixteen books, including Celestina and the Ends of Desire (University of Toronto Press, 2011), which received the Modern Language Association’s Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize; Refiguring Authority: Reading, Writing, and Rewriting in Cervantes (University Press of Kentucky, 1995), named an Outstanding Academic Book; and Cervantes: Displacements, Inflections and Transcendence (2019). He previously chaired the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Georgetown University and held the Andrew W. Mellon Distinguished Professorship there. Among his honors are the Hispanic Review’s Edwin B. Williams Prize (1981), the Modern Language Association’s John K. Walsh Prize (1997), UCLA Distinguished Alumnus recognition (2009), and Sigma Delta Pi’s Order of Don Quijote (2015). Gerli has served on numerous editorial boards and as General Editor of Medieval Iberia: An Encyclopedia (Routledge, 2003).