Birutė Ciplijauskaitė (11 April 1929 in Kaunas – 19 June 2017) was a Lithuanian literary scholar and translator. She is considered one of the greatest Hispanists in American academia in the twentieth century.
The daughter of physician and gynecologist, director of Klaipėda hospital, she attended Kaunas Conservatory and fled Lithuania during World War II. She graduated from the University of Tübingen in 1956 and then the University of Montreal. She received her PhD in Spanish and French from Bryn Mawr College in 1960. Her dissertation, that she wrote under the supervision of Spanish philosopher Jose Ferrater Mora, explored the topic of 'soledad' in twentieth-century Spanish poetry.
Ciplijauskaitė taught Spanish at the University of Wisconsin–Madison from 1960 until 2000, and was a professor from 1968. Ciplijauskaitė has been an adviser for the Lithuanian-American cultural journal Lituanus.
Bibliography La soledad en el destierro, Ínsula, 1962 La soledad y la poesía española contemporánea, Ínsula, 1963 El poeta y la poesía: del romanticismo a la poesía social, Ínsula, 1966 (ed.) Luis de Góngora y Argote, Sonetos completos, Castalia, 1968 Baroja, un estilo, Ínsula, 1972 Deber de plenitud, la poesía de Jorge Guillén, Secretaría de educación pública, 1973 Birutė Ciplijauskaitė (ed.), Jorge Guillén, Taurus, 1975 Birutė Ciplijauskaitė (ed.), Homenaje a Juan Ramón Jiménez, Fundación Universitaria Española, seminario "Ménendez Pelayo, 1982 Los Noventayochistas y la historia, J. Porrúa Turanzas, 1981 La mujer insatisfecha : el adulterio en la novela realista, Edhasa, 1984 Juegos de duplicación e inversión en "La Celestina", Gredos, 1988 La novela femenina contemporánea 1970-1985 : hacia una tipología de la narración en primera persona, Anthropos, 1988 Birutė Ciplijauskaitė (ed.), La voluntad de humanismo: homenaje a Juan Marichal, Anthropos, 1990 Birutė Ciplijauskaitė (ed.), Novísimos, postnovísimos, clásicos: la poesía de los 80 en España, Orígenes, 1991 Vingt poètes lituaniens d'aujourd'hui, Éditions du Petit Véhicule, 1997 De signos y significaciones. 1 : poetas del 27, Anthropos, 1999 Carmen Martín Gaite (1925-2000), Ediciones del Orto, 2000 La construcción del yo femenino en la literatura, Universidad de Cádiz. Servicio de publicaciones, 2004
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