Schulman received his undergraduate degree from
Brooklyn College and his PhD from the
University of California at Los Angeles. At UCLA, he studied under
Manuel Pedro González. Schulman was Chair of the Department of Romance Languages and founder and Chair of the Latin American Studies Program at
Washington University in St. Louis, Chair of the Department of Romance Languages at the
State University of New York at Stony Brook, Graduate Research Professor and Director of the Center for Latin American Studies at the
University of Florida, Professor of Spanish at
Wayne State University, Head of the Department of Spanish, Italian and Portuguese and Richard G. and Carole J. Cline University Scholar at the
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, and Jordan Davidson Visiting Distinguished Chair of Humanities at
Florida International University. He was also Visiting Professor and Research Scholar at the
University of Oregon, the
University of Michigan, the
Universidade Federal de Rio de Janeiro, the
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, the
Universidad de Buenos Aires, and the
Universidad de Granada. Additionally, Schulman served as President of the José Martí Foundation and President of the Instituto Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana. ==Publications==