Estimado Roberto,

Siento mucho comunicarte que el cervantista de reconocido prestigio Thomas (Tom) Hart fallecio el 17 del corriente.  Te agradeceria que les avisaras a nuestros colegas. En su honor y memoria, cito del homenaje a cargo de Caroline Jewers y Julian Weiss que publicaron en Comparative Literature, revista que edito por tantos annos.
Mis saludos, Anne


 Thomas R. Hart was born in Raleigh, North Carolina, in 1925. Following the end of World War II, Tom attended Yale University, earning a B.A. in Spanish and Portuguese (summa cum laude, 1948) and a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature (1952, with a dissertation entitled A History of Spanish Literary History, 1800-1850). Following instructorships at Amherst and Harvard, he was an assistant professor at Johns Hopkins (1955-60) and an associate at Emory (1960-64) before moving, as full professor, to the University of Oregon, which continues to this day to be his academic home since his retirement from teaching in 1990. Through his teaching, research, and professional service, Tom epitomized and fostered the interdisciplinary aspirations of the humanities at Oregon. Apart from his own publications, the most visible sign of his commitment to comparatist approaches to Romance literary studies has been his longstanding service to Comparative Literature. After six years as assistant editor (1966-72), he served as editor for twenty-three years (1972-1995), and the significance of this contribution is currently recognized in the title of Editor Emeritus. Tom’s dedication to comparative literary studies also underwrote his teaching, both in the Department of Romance Languages and in the Comparative Literature Program, where a broad spectrum of undergraduate and graduate courses consistently cut across the boundaries of national literary traditions. In short, Tom’s distinguished international reputation is grounded in his combined achievements as scholar, teacher, and editor. His is a career marked by a prolific and broad record of original publications and an enviable sequence of prestigious national and international research grants (American Philosophical Society, Fulbright, Gulbenkian, NEH) and fellowships (Camargo Foundation, Institute of Romance Studies, London), as well as invitations to teach and conduct research at the Universities of Oxford and Chicago.... [W]hile Tom has made major contributions to our understanding of some of the canonical texts and authors of the national literary traditions of Spain and Portugal—the Libro de buen amor, Cantar de mio Cid, Tirant lo Blanc, Gil Vicente, Camões, and Cervantes —his comparatist interventions in scholarly debate have opened up new spaces in which to reflect upon the dynamic relations between past texts, their contemporary or subsequent reading publics, and modern critics.