Dorothy Severin

Dorothy Sherman Severin AB, AM, PhD, FSA, OBE (born 24 March 1942^[1]) is Emeritus Professor of Literature at University of Liverpool and a Hispanist. Her research interests include cancioneros and La Celestina.^[2]

In June 2009, she was elected corresponding Fellow of the Real Academia Espanola, a distinction granted to very few foreign academics.^[3][4]

Originally Dorothy Sherman, she was the first wife of explorer and writer Tim Severin.^[5]

Professional memberships

• Arts and Humanities Research Council (Advisor to Research Board)
• Asociación Hispánica de Literatura Medieval (Executive Committee Member)
• Asociación Internacional de Hispanistas (Board Member)
• Association of Hispanists of Great Britain and Ireland (Member)
• Convivio (Cancioneristas) (Board Member)
• HEFCE RAE Sub-Panel (Vice Chair)
• Modern Humanities Research Association (Board Member)
• Royal Society for the Arts (Member)
• Society of Antiquaries of London (Fellow)
• Women in Spanish, Portuguese, and Latin-American Studies (WISPS) (Founder Member)

Publications

• "The relationship between the Libro de Buen Amor and Celestina: Does Trotaconventos Perform a Philocaptio Spell on Dona Endrina?" In: Louise M. Haywood and Louise O. Vasvari eds. A Companion to the Libro de Buen Amor Tamesis pp. 123–27 (2004)
• Del manuscrito a la imprenta en la epoca de Isabel la Catolica. Kassel: Reichenberger (2004)
• "Politica y poesia en la corte de Isabel la Catolica". In: Pedro Pinero eds. Dejar hablar a los textos: homenaje a Francisco Marquez University of Seville pp. 239–48 (2005)
• "Celestina's Audience, from Manuscript to Print" In: Ottavio Di Camillo and John O'Neill eds. Selected Papers from the International Congress in Commemoration of the Quincentennial Anniversary of La Celestina Hispanic Seminary of Medieval Studies pp. 197–205 (2005)
• Religious Parody and the Spanish Sentimental Romance. Newark Delaware: Juan de la Cuesta (2005)
• "15th Century Spanish Literary Conjurations and their Relationship to Lucan's Pharsalia VI." In: Charles Burnett, Jill Kraye, WF Ryan eds. Magic and the Classical Tradition Warburg Institute-Nino Aragno Editore pp. 213–22 (2006)
• "The sepultura de Macias by San Pedro--but which San Pedro?" In: Dru Doherty eds. Medieval and Renaissance Spain and Portugal. Studies in Honor of Arthur L-F Askins Tamesis pp. 301–08 (2006)
• An electronic corpus of 15th-century Castilian cancionero manuscripts Archived 6 February 2015 at the Wayback Machine. Liverpool/Birmingham: University of Liverpool; SD-Editions (2007) Dorothy Severin, Fiona Maguire, Manuel Moreno, Barbara Bordalejo

References

1. Negotiating the glass ceiling: careers of senior women in the academic world David, Miriam E. and Woodward, Diana. Routledge, 1998 ISBN 0-7507-0837-9 ISBN 978-0-7507-0837-1 at Google Books
2. "University of Liverpool - School of Cultures, Languages and Area Studies". Archived from the original on 15 February 2020. Retrieved 1 November 2009.
3. Association of Hispanists of Great Britain and Ireland Accessed 2009-10-31
4. Real Academia Española Archived July 9, 2012, at the Wayback Machine (in Spanish)
5. Macleod, Maxwell. "Obituary: Adventurer who rebuilt ancient craft to retrace epic, historic routes". The Herald. No. 23 February 2021. Glasgow. p. 20. Archived from the original on 21 January 2022.