Document Type

Article

Journal/Book Title/Conference

Decimonónica

Volume

14

Issue

2

Publisher

Decimonónica

Publication Date

2017

First Page

71

Last Page

74

Abstract

In April 2006 at the annual Kentucky Foreign Language Conference (KFLC), Decimonónica sponsored a session honoring Donald Leslie Shaw’s broad scholarly contributions to Hispanism. It was one of five different panels organized for this renowned scholar in addition to a grand luncheon that celebrated his remarkable career and presented him Modernisms and Modernities: Studies in Honor of Donald L. Shaw, a Festschrift edited by Susan Carvalho that included her 12-page introduction, a wonderful biographical sketch of Shaw. Those of us present for these various tributes in Kentucky will never forget how visibly overwhelmed Shaw was by the multiple public gestures, to include his induction into the prestigious Orden de Don Quijote, one of the highest international honors of Sigma Delta Pi, the National Collegiate Hispanic Honor Society. And although these various recognitions reconfirmed the huge impact Shaw had made on both Latin American and Spanish literary studies, the fact that the venue was his beloved Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, an annual “pilgrimage” he refused to miss because of its reunion with dear students, colleagues and friends, made the collective homage even more meaningful.

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