11/6/09 Eduardo Urbina receives a three year grant for DQ Princeps project

Eduardo Urbina, professor of Spanish and Conerstone Faculty Fellow

• Eduardo Urbina, professor and director of graduate studies in Hispanic Studies, has received a three-year grant for $70,000 from the Ministry of Science and Innovation of Spain for his project DQ Princeps.
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• It involves the identification, description, and documentation of all existing copies of the first edition of Cervantes' Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605) in order to create a comprehensive bibliographical index and the first annotated census.
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• The DQ Princeps project is an outcome of Urbina’s Electronic variorum edition of the Quixote, developed as part of the Cervantes Project at Texas A&M University and funded by a grant from the National Science Foundation.
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Eduardo Urbina receives a three year grant for DQ Princeps project

Eduardo Urbina, professor and director of graduate studies in Hispanic Studies, has received a three- year grant for $70,000 from the Ministry of Science and Innovation of Spain for his project DQ Princeps. The leading Principal Investigator is Dr. Victor Infantes of the University Complutense of Madrid, while Urbina is the Co-PI.

The DQ Princeps project is an outcome of Urbina’s Electronic variorum edition of the Quixote, developed as part of the Cervantes Project at Texas A&M University and funded by a grant from the National Science Foundation.

It involves the identification, description, and documentation of all existing copies of the first edition of Cervantes' Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605) in order to create a comprehensive bibliographical index and the first annotated census.

Urbina earned his Ph.D. at the University of California at Berkeley and is currently director of the Cátedra Cervantes at the University of Castilla-La Mancha. He is the author of Principios and fines del Quijote (1990), El sin par Sancho Panza: Parodia y creación (1991), Don Quixote Illustrated, ed. (2005), Electronic Variorum Edition of Don Quixote (2005-2007), Textual Iconography of the Quixote Archive (2003-2007), and La ficción que no cesa: Paul Auster and Cervantes (2007). He has published over 100 articles and book chapters. He is the Director of the Cervantes Project (http://cervantes.tamu.edu).

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