{"id":9448,"date":"2012-09-13T11:37:18","date_gmt":"2012-09-13T11:37:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/?page_id=9448"},"modified":"2025-09-11T01:46:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T01:46:08","slug":"kidd","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/faculty\/kidd\/","title":{"rendered":"Kidd, Michael"},"content":{"rendered":"
\u00a1Hola! Et salve!<\/p>\n
Before coming to Augsburg in 2008, I taught at St. Olaf, Macalester, Carleton, and the University of New Mexico. I love Augsburg’s urban location, its emphasis on global citizenship, and its unique Medieval Studies program.<\/p>\n
With academic training in Hispanic Studies and Classics, I teach a broad array of courses in Spanish language, literature, and culture as well as first-year Latin. My scholarship focuses on medieval, early modern, and contemporary Spain along with literary translation.<\/p>\n
In addition to holding positions in Languages and Cross-Cultural Studies<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Medieval Studies<\/a>, I collaborate closely with the Departments of\u00a0English<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Theater<\/a>, with the M.F.A. program<\/a>, and with the Center for Global Education<\/a>.\u00a0I am also\u00a0a literary translator and creative writer<\/a>.<\/p>\n BOOKS<\/p>\n ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS<\/p>\n Sunt lacrimae rerum et mentem mortalia tangunt.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n \u2014Virgil<\/p>\n Rapiebant me spectacula theatrica, plena\u00a0imaginibus miserarium mearum et fomitibus ignis mei.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n \u2014St. Augustine<\/p>\n Quid igitur, O mortales, extra petitis intra vos positam felicitatem?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n \u2014Boethius<\/p>\n De los sos ojos tan fuertemientre llorando, tornava la cabe\u00e7a e\u00a0est\u00e1valos catando.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n \u2014Poem of the Cid<\/p>\n \u00bfQu\u00e9 pasado bien no es sue\u00f1o?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n \u2014Pedro Calder\u00f3n de la Barca<\/p>\n La puerta del teatro no se cierra nunca.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n \u2014Federico Garc\u00eda Lorca<\/p>\n Take one of my courses to learn more!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u00a1Hola! Et salve! Before coming to Augsburg in 2008, I taught at St. Olaf, Macalester, Carleton, and the University of New Mexico. I love Augsburg’s urban location, its emphasis on global citizenship, and its unique Medieval Studies program. With academic training in Hispanic Studies and Classics, I teach a broad array of courses in Spanish …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":91,"featured_media":49425,"parent":0,"menu_order":166,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-9448","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/91"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9448"}],"version-history":[{"count":101,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9448\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49761,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9448\/revisions\/49761"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Education<\/h2>\n
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Honors and Distinctions<\/h2>\n
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Courses<\/h2>\n
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Selected Publications<\/h2>\n
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Favorite literary Quotes<\/h2>\n