It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Professor Harvey L. Sharrer in September. Our deepest sympathies are with his family, friends, colleagues, and former students. We are privileged to present the following tribute from our Department of Spanish and Portuguese.

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Professor Harvey Sharrer started as an Acting Assistant Professor at UCSB in 1968. He became Assistant in 1970. Professor Sharrer completed his BA and MA at UC Berkeley, and obtained his Ph.D. at UCLA in 1970.

A model scholar, Harvey Sharrer's impressive range of knowledge about the Middle Ages encompassed Arthurian literature, Medieval lyric and digital humanities, in which he was a pioneer. He worked with Portuguese, Galician, Spanish and Catalan literatures. In 1970, Harvey Sharrer was the co-founder of the first American Journal devoted to medieval Iberian literatures, La Corónica. His most important work was PhiloBiblon, a collaborative project consisting of a database of medieval Iberian Peninsula manuscripts which received continued support from the NEH since the 1980s. Harvey Sharrer made a momentous discovery of seven unknown lyric poems in Galician-Portuguese by King Dinis (14th century) copied on a parchment now known as Pergaminho Sharrer [Parchment Sharrer].

Harvey Sharrer will be missed not only for his extraordinary scholarship, which will remain exemplary in Medieval Studies, but as a remarkable mentor for our students and young scholars, and as a judicious, generous, polite colleague to all members of the Spanish and Portuguese Department and their staff as well. Retirement didn't mean a thing for Harvey, who was always participating in conferences all over the world and at UCSB, as well as generously proofreading articles for the Santa Barbara Portuguese Studies. Harvey Sharrer will be missed for all his extraordinary qualities, and his work will remain relevant for the future.