Pedro Lasarte

I am a professor in the Department of Romance Stuies at Boston University, where I have since 1987. I began my studies at the Universidad Nacional de Ingeniería (Lima) before transferring to the University of Texas. I subsequently received a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan. My teaching and research center on Spanish American literature and culture. I published a critical edition of Mateo Rosas de Oquendo’s Sátira a las cosas que pasan en el Pirú, año de 1598 (Madison: HSMS); my most recent publications include Lima satirizada (1598-1698): Mateo Rosas de Oquendo y Juan del Valle y Caviedes (Lima: Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2006) and Mateo Rosas de Oquendo: Obra completa y poemas relacionados. Estudio y edición crítica (forthcoming, Academia Peruana de la Lengua and Universidad Ricardo Palma, 2013). My critical edition of Peruntina is under review. I am currently working on a book entitled Pirates and Prostitutes: Illicit Commerce in Seventeenth-Century Peru. In collaboration with María Soledad Barbón, I am preparing a critical edition of the complete works of Esteban de Terralla y Landa. My critical essays have appeared in journals such as Hispanic Review, MLN, Colonial Latin American Review, Nueva revista de filología hispánica, Revista de estudios hispánicos, and Lexis. I have been Associate Editor of Calíope, have served on the Editorial Board of Revista Iberoamericana and I am a member of the Editorial Board of Colonial Latin American Review. I received a John Carter Brown Fellowship and was Visiting Associate Professor at the University of Michigan. I am a member of the Peruvian Academy of Language. A summary of some of my publications may be found at http://www.pedrolasarte.com