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Katherine Gatto, PhD

Professor - Classical and Modern Languages and Cultures

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eMail

gatto@jcu.edu

Phone Number

216-397-4672

Location

O'Malley Center 143

Employee Type

Faculty

Office Hours

Spring 2023: T/Th

3:30 - 6:30 pm

Appointments preferred.

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Professor of Spanish

Biography

Katherine Gyékényesi Gatto is Professor of Spanish and Hispanic Studies and former Chairperson (1990-97) of the Department of Classical and Modern Languages and Cultures at ִ˰appԼ. In 2012, she founded the Women’s and Gender Studies program. The focus of Professor Gatto’s scholarly research is medieval Spanish literature, Hispanic women writers and filmmakers, and Hungarian and Hungarian-American literature and film. Her most recent book is Spain’s Literary Legacy: Studies in Spanish Literature and Culture From the Middle Ages to the Nineteenth Century (2005), which she edited and to which she contributed an essay on medieval medical views of women in the Lapidario of Alfonso X, the Learned. Currently she is extending and broadening a number of articles she has published on the Argentine director, María Luisa Bemberg, into a book length manuscript, entitled Solo Tango: The Feminist Films of María Luisa Bemberg. In 2001 she was the winner of the Lucrecia Culicchia Award for Teaching Excellence in the College of Arts and Sciences. Professor Gatto was born in Austria and emigrated to the USA with her Hungarian parents.

Recent Publications

“Poet of Miracles: Berceo’s La vida de San Millán de la Cogolla and the ‘Mھ’ (Ivories) of San Millán’s Reliquary.” Rondas literarias de Pittsburgh, 2011. Gregorio C. Martin, Duquesne University, Dept. Modern Languages, 2012, 199-211.

Veizer, John Keith. 2015. VeizerVizerWiezerWieser: A Memoir and a Search: Granite City to Kompolt. North Charleston, SC: CreateSpace. 279 pp. Hungarian Cultural Studies. e-Journal of the American Hungarian Educators Association, Volume 10 (2017) DOI: 10.5195/ahea.2017.310. Book Review.

“The ‘Hair’ Factor, Humanism, Neoplatonism, and Empire Building in the Spanish Golden Age.” Rondas literarias de Pittsburgh, 2016. Ed. Gregorio C. Martin, Duquesne University, Dept. Modern Languages, 2017, 67-75.

Degrees

  • M.A., Ph.D., Case - Western Reserve University
  • A.B. magna cum laude, ִ˰appԼ