Honoring the career of Ciriaco Morón Arroyo

Left: Gonzalo Sobejano, the Fred and Fanny Mack Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Columbia University, gives the keynote address April 25 in the A.D. White House for "'El alma de España/The Soul of Spain': A Symposium of Contemporary Criticism in Honor of Ciriaco Morón Arroyo." Morón Arroyo, the Emerson Hinchliff Professor of Hispanic Studies in the departments of Romance Studies and Comparative Literature at Cornell, will be retiring in spring 2004. Right: Morón Arroyo, middle, speaks with Roberto González Echevarría, left, the Sterling Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese and Comparative Literature at Yale University, the closing keynote speaker, and Jeremy Medina of Hamilton College before the symposium opens. Many of Arroyo's former students, now faculty at prestigious universities across the country, attended the two-day event celebrating his career. Barry De Libero/University Photography