Contact Information

Office: 3161 JFSB

Phone: 422-1759

Email: christopher_lund@byu.edu

Commonly Taught Courses IAS 339R
IAS 380R
Port 345
Port 442/642

Semester Schedule: Winter 2013 Office Hours:

T/Th 3-4:00 3161 JFSB
W 3-4:00 211 HRCB

Biography:

Christopher Lund was born in Brigham City, Utah, in January, 1944. He answers to Kit, as did Christopher Carson for most of his life. After a four year stay in Logan, while his father finished a degree at Utah State University, he moved to Orangeburg, New York, and cheered as his father finished an M.A. at Columbia University. In 1961, he traveled to Provo where he studied English and Art at BYU. From 1964 to 1966, Kit represented his church in Brazil, and upon his return finished a major in Portuguese. In 1966 he married Nancy Irene Robins. They have five children: Christopher, Benjamin, Gretchen, Jeremiah, and Ashley. Graduate work took them to Austin, Texas, where Kit completed his M.A.(1970) on the novels of Ciro dos Anjos, and took his Ph.D. with a dissertation on Conceptismo in Three Seventeenth-Century Portuguese Poets (1974). Rutgers University hired Christopher in 1973 to build a Portuguese program. While he was doing this (without adequate budget), the Library of Congress contracted him to produce a catalogue of _The Portuguese Manuscripts Collection_ (1980), items acquired in 1924. Since then, interest peaked by the intense archival research at the LC, he has researched the fields of Renaissance and Baroque Portuguese literature, and is particularly charmed, in a neo-historical sense, by works which, though written in the 16th or 17th centuries, remained unpublished for any number of reasons, but were well-enough known to have impacted the literary canon. One such work, the Parnaso de Vila Vicosa, written in 1618 by Francisco de Morais Sardinha, is now being published by the University of Coimbra. The Parnaso, besides being an important and original panegyric, contains a collection of late 16th, early 17th-centry poems utterly ignored until now. Lund also researches classical and enlightenment prose and is a fan of Fernando Pessoa.

Degrees: BA, Brigham Young U., 1967;
MA, U. of Texas, Austin, 1970;
PhD, U. of Texas, Austin, 1974