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José Miguel de Barandiarán Professor of Basque Studies; Professor of Spanish; Spanish Middle Ages; Renaissance Golden Age; Galdós, Valera, Valle-Inclán, Lorca; Spanish-American Colonial literatures; Basque studies. Author of forty-five books, the latest, Enciclopedia Cervantina, is in press at the Centro de Estudios Cervantinos, Alcalá de Henares, Spain and Universidad de Guanajuato, Mexico; author of over three hundred professional articles. Recipient of awards from the Guggenheim Foundation, ACLS, American Philosophical Society, National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH Senior Fellow, Universidad Interamericana, Puerto Rico, 1993), Premio Bonsoms (Barcelona), Premio del Centro Gallego, member of the Real Academia de Buenas Letras de Barcelona, the Academia Argentina de Letras, Academy of Literary Studies (USA).
Twentieth-Century Peninsular and Latin American poetry and poetics; literary and cultural theory; Galician poetry popular culture. Author of articles on poetry and popular culture; poetic discourse; poetic influence, female subjectivity and sexuality,including: “Sexing the Bildungsroman: Las edades de Lulú, Pornography and the Pleasure Principle” (1996); “Music to My Ears: Conchita Piquer and the (Un)Making of Cultural Nationalism” (1997); “¿Ut pictura poiesis?: ¿Julián del Casal y Gustave Moreau frente a frente?” (1999); “De ‘la ansiedad de la influencia’ a ‘los diálogos con Rosalía’: hablemos de Luz Pozo Garza y de las relaciones intrapoéticas” en Tierra de nadie: lecturas feministas (forthcoming); “¿Sin la ansiedad de la influencia?: Rosalía de Castro, Harold Bloom y las poetas gallegas del veinte” (forthcoming), Los mecanismos del deseo: lenguaje y subjetividad en la poesia española contemporanea (1998); La esfinge de la escritura: la inescrutable poesia de Blanca Varela (forthcoming). Work-in-progress: articles on “Postcolonialismo Transatlántico: Cuba y Galicia en/por Curros Enriquez”; “Let's Talk About Sex: La SonrisaVertical after Las Edades de Lulu”, “Versions of The Future, Visions of the Past: The Cultural Nostalgia of Contemporary Spanish Poetry”.
Portuguese and Brazilian literatures; nineteenth and twentieth centuries; "neo-realismo"; literary theory; analysis and criticism of narrative, poetry, and drama. Responsible for the publication series of the Center for Portuguese Studies; founder and editor of its yearly journal, Santa Barbara Portuguese Studies. Author of criticism: Carlos de Oliveira et le Roman (Paris, Fundação Gulbenkian,1987); Os Malefícios da Literatura, do Amor e da Civilização, Ensaios sobre Camilo Castelo Branco (Lisboa, Edições Fenda, 1992). Editor of Camilo Castelo Branco, no Centenário da Morte (CPS, UCSB, 1995). Co-editor of O Amor das Letras e das Gentes, in honor of Maria de Lourdes Belchior Pontes (CPS, UCSB, 1996), and of The Portuguese and the Pacific I (CPS, UCSB, 1996). Author of a novel: Retrato Breve de J.B. (Porto, Editora Paisagem, 1975) and of Uma Sonata de Brahms e Outros Diálogos (Capital do Teatro, Covilhã, 1998, and of several volumes of poetry: Os Filmes Coloridos (Porto, Edições Árvore, 1978); O ruído fino ("antologia de poemas inéditos") in A Jovem Poesia Portuguesa I (Porto, Limiar, 1979); O T de TU (Coimbra, Edições Fenda, 1981); Na Pista, Entre as Linhas (Lisboa, Imprensa Nacional-Casa da Moeda, 1983); Para a Desconhecida (Lisboa, Edições Fenda, 1983); A Mala dos Marx Brothers (Lisboa, Editorial Caminho, 1989); A Mais Nobre das Artes (Lisboa, Editorial Caminho, 1991); Nunca Mais se Apagam as Imagens (Lisboa, Edições Fenda, 1996). Numerous articles, poems, and also a few short-stories and plays, in books, journals, literary magazines.
Areas of instruction and research: Nineteenth and early twentieth-century Spanish-American literature. Special focus on Romanticism, Modernismo, and the Spanish-American Avant-garde. Additional areas of interest: poetry and poetics; history of ideas; contemporary literary theory; Cuban and Puertorrican literature; nineteenth century Peninsular and contemporary Spanish-American literature. Books: El lenguaje y la poesía de Julio Herrera y Reissig (Biblioteca de Marcha, 1999), and La estación florida (Isla Negra, 1997). His most recent articles include:¨Delmira Agustini o el modernismo subversivo, Chasqui, November 1998); "Para llegar a Kalahari o la metapoesía como eje ideológico y estructural en la lírica de Luis Palés Matos," (Revista de Estudios Hispánicos ,1998); "El rey Oscar y el presidente Roosevelt: el sentimiento de lo aristocrático en Rubén Darío" (Cuadernos de Marcha, February-March 1999); El 'sublime Niágara' y los abismos de la modernidad en la poesía hispanoamericana decimonónica (Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, 1999); The Gospel According to Vargas Vila, (Romanische Forschungen, 1999). His scholarly publications also include essays on Moreto, Valera, Marqués, Sarmiento, and the Latin American Avant-garde manifestos. He also writes fiction, has published a novel, and individual short stories in antologies and literary journals. Work in progress: a full-length study of the relationship between poetry, desire, and knowledge in Modern Latin American poetry.
Jorge Checa, Professor
(Ph.D., Princeton University)
Early Modern Literature and Culture. He is the author of Gracián y la imaginación arquitectónica (1986) Barroco esencial (1992), Experiencia y representación en el Siglo de Oro (1998) , and two books on Spanish Golden Age Poetry. His publications also include a number of articles about Gracián, Cervantes, Colonial Literature, Lope de Vega, Quevedo etc., as well as other topics related to literary history (Golden Age, Medieval, Contemporary). He has applied comparative approaches to the study of Golden Age authors, and has written about different theoretical issues such as intertextuality, reading and interpretation, ideology, or the relations between literature and other forms of representation.
Author of over 50 professional articles and 13 books on Medieval and Renaissance Romance Literatures, Spanish Colonial literature, Medieval and Modern History, and Contemporary Spanish and Spanish American literature.
Nineteenth and Twentieth century Spanish literature; Spanish and Latin American avant-garde, postmodernism, film and theater; literary and cultural criticism. Among his books are: La marcha al pueblo en las letras españolas 1917-1936 (1980); El cántico material y espiritual de César Vallejo (1981); Galdos, republicano y demócrata. Escritos políticos 1906-1913 (1982); Buñuel: Cine y literatura (1989); Benjamín Jarnés: Bio-grafía y metaficción (1989); Buñuel en México (1993); editor, La otra cara del 27: la novela social española 1923-1939 (Letras Peninsulares, Spring 1993); a critical edition of La regenta (Akal 1999); Antología de la poesía bohemia española, temas y figuras (Celeste 1999); numerous articles, chapters, and reviews on Spanish and Hispanic modern and contemporary literature, film, and sociocultural history. Los mundos de Buñuel (2000); a critical edition of Misericordia (Akal 2000); Editor of a monograph on Multilingual and Plurinational Spain (Letras Peninsulares, 2002).
Suzanne Jill Levine,
Professor
(Ph.D. New York University,
1977)
e-mail: sjlevine@humanitas.ucsb.edu
Latin American literature; twentieth century fiction; literary translation and theory; comparative literary studies. Author of El espejo hablado: un estudio de Cien años de soledad (Caracas: Monte Avila, 1975), Guía de Bioy Casares (Madrid: Fundamentos, 1982), The Subversive Scribe: Translating Latin American Fiction (St. Paul: Graywolf Press, 1991); Manuel Puig and the Spider Woman: His Life and Fictions (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux; London: Faber & Faber, 2000), as well as numerous articles, chapters, interviews , reviews and creative translations of major Latin American and Hispanic writers such as Jorge Luis Borges, Adolfo Bioy Casares, Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Julio Cortazar, Jose Donoso, Carlos Fuentes, Silvina Ocampo, Alejandra Pizarnik, Julian Rios and Severo Sarduy. Her honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship (1996), the PEN American Award for Career Achievement in Hispanic Studies (1996); several grants and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Latin American literature, particularly Chilean, Andean, Mexican, and Argentine; Central American Literature; testimonial literature; translation; Chicano literature, particularly Southwest literary history, Pre-Chicano literature; literary theory; cultural studies; autobiography; bibliography. Author or coathor of Chicano Perspectives in Literature: A Critical and Annotated Bibliography (1976), La novelística de Carlos Droguett (1983), Handbook of Hispanic Cultures in the U.S.: Art and Literature (1993), Dictionary of Literary Biography (3 vols., 1989, 1993, 1999), Aztlán: Essays on the Chicano Homeland (1989), translator, The Last Testament (Rodolfo Braceli, 1978); author of numerous articles, chapters, interviews of Latin American and Chicano authors (including videotapes), editor of special journal issues on Ethnic Studies, Latin American topics, and Colonial literature.
Contemporary Latin American literature; Latin American cultural studies; U.S. Latino literature; literary theory; visual and verbal semiotics; mass culture; women’s writing. Author of From Mademoiselle to Ms.: Decoding Women’s Magazines (St. Martin’s, 1993); New Latina Narrative: The Feminine Space of Postmodern Ethnicity (University of Arizona Press, 1999); Fray Angélico Chávez: Poet, Priest, Artist (University of New Mexico Press, 2000); articles on U.S. Latina writers Cisneros, Ponce, Alvarez, Mohr, Limón, and Cantú; Latin American writers Vargas Llosa, Cortázar, Puig, Leñero, and Piglia; visual and verbal semiosis in retablos; iconicity and narrative; popular religiosity; metaplagiarism; women and mass culture; the meta-comic book; and hybridity and the space of the border.
Timothy McGovern, Assistant
Professor
(Ph.D., UCLA, 1997)
Areas of Specialization:
19th Century Spanish and Portuguese Literatures, Gay and Lesbian Literatures,
Applied Linguistics, Foreign Language Teaching Methodology. Coordinator
of Spanish and Portuguese Language Programs.
Books:
Dickens in Galdós
(Peter Lang),
Using Portuguese (Cambridge) (in press).
Hispanic linguistics: history
of the language, dialectology, Mexican Spanish, California Spanish. Author
of Fonología del español hablado en la ciudad de México:
ensayo de un método sociolingüístico (El Colegio
de México, 1975); Reconquista y literatura medieval: cuatro ensayos
(Scripta Humanística, 1988); Juan Suárez de Peralta Tratado
del descubrimiento de las Yndias y su conquista (1589), Transcription,
Preliminary Study and Notes by Giorgio Perissinotto (Alianza Editorial,
1990); Linguistic Perspectives on the Romance Languages. William
J. Ashby, Marianne Mithun, Giorgio Perissinotto, Eduardo Raposo, Eds. (John
Benjamins, 1993); Resarch in Humanities Computing, Editor (Oxford:
Clarendon Press, 1996); Documenting Everyday Life in Early Spanish California:
The Santa Barbara Presidio Memorias y Facturas, 1779-1810
(Santa Barbara
Trust for Historic Preservation, 1998); numerous articles on topics ranging
from Medieval literature and historical linguistics to Mexican and United
States Spanish. Current research: Spanish and Mexican beginnings in California;
A Bilingual Glossary of Material Culture: California and the Southwest
in the Colonial Period.
Specialization in Mexican and Spanish American Literature. Author of Un giro en espiral. El proyecto literario de Juan José Arreola (University of Guadalajara, 1992); editor and coauthor of Y diversa de mi mísma entre vuestras plumas ando. Homenaje internacional a Sor Juana Inésde la Cruz (El Colegio de México, 1993); editor and co-author of Sor Juana y su mundo. Una mirada actual (Universidad del Claustro de Sor Juana/ Gobierno del Estado de Puebla / Fondo de Cultura Económica, 1995); editor and co-author of El cuento mexicano. Homenaje a Luis Leal (Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, 1996); author of Los guardaditos de Sor Juana (Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, 1999). Author of more than fifty publications on Colonial Mexican Literature, XIX and XX century. Articles on Juan Jose Arreola, Carlos Fuentes, Juan Rulfo, Jaime Torres Bodet, Josefina Vicens, Carlos Fuentes, Elena Poniatowska, Sergio Pitol, José Emilio Pacheco, Ignacio Solares, among others. She works above all on Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Mexican Culture, and Theater (XVII and XVIII century), women writers, and on contemporary romance and short stories (XXI Century Literature).
Comparative Romance Grammar; Generative Syntax; Semantics; Spanish and Portuguese Linguistics. Author of Teoria da Gramática: A Faculdade da Linguagem (Editorial Caminho, Lisbon, 1992). Author or co-author of several articles, including "Some asymetries in the Binding Theory in Romance" (The Linguistic Review, 1985), "On the Null Object in European Portuguese" (in Studies in Romance Linguistics, Foris, 1986) "Clause Union, the Stratal Uniqueness Law and the Chômeur Relation" (Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, 1986), "Case Theory and Infl-to-Comp: the Inflected Infinitive in European Portuguese" (Linguistic Inquiry, 1987), "Long-Distance Case Assignment" (Linguistic Inquiry, 1990), "Two types of Small Clauses" (Syntax and Semantics vol 28). Co-editor of Linguistic Perspectives on the Romance Languages (Foris, 1993) and of Probus (International Journal of Latin and Romance Linguistics). Work in progress: a book on the historical syntax of Portuguese.
Harvey L. Sharrer, Professor
(Ph.D., University of California,
Los Angeles, 1970)
Medieval Literature: Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan; Comparative Literature: Arthurian romance; Catalan language and culture. Author of A Critical Bibliography of Hispanic Arthurian Material, I: Texts: The Prose Romance Cycles (London: Grant & Cutler, 1977); The Legendary History of Britain in Lope García de Salazar's Libro de las bienandanzas e fortunas (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1979); editor with Frederick G. Williams of Studies on Jorge de Sena by His Colleagues and Friends (Santa Barbara: Jorge de Sena Center for Portuguese Studies, 1981); editor with E. Michael Gerli of Hispanic Medieval Studies in Honor of Samuel G. Armistead (Madison: Hispanic Seminary of Medieval Studies, 1992); compiler with Arthur L-F. Askins, Martha E. Schaffer, and Aida Fernanda Dias of BITAGAP (Bibliografia de Textos Antigos Galegos e Portugueses, part of CD-ROM PhiloBiblon: Electronic Bibliographies of Medieval Catalan, Galician, Portuguese, and Spanish Texts, general editors Arthur L-F. Askins, Harvey L. Sharrer, and Charles B. Faulhaber (Berkeley: The Bancroft Library, 1999); co-author with Manuel Pedro Ferreira of book in preparation Cantus Coronatus: Seven cantigas de amor by Dom Dinis, King of Portugal and the Algarve; author of numerous essays on Arthurian, Tristan, Alexander, and sentimental romances, Galician-Portuguese poetry, pseudo-history and literatura de cordel. Recent graduate courses on Bibliography and Methods of Research, Textual Scholarship and Textual Criticism, Fernão Lopes and Medieval Portuguese Historiography.
Emeriti
Carlos H. Albarracín-Sarmiento , P.L., University of La Plata, Professor Emeritus
Pablo Avila , Ph.D., Stanford University, Professor Emeritus
Carlos García Barrón , Ph.D., UC Los Angeles, Professor Emeritus
David Bary , Ph.D., UC Berkeley, Professor Emeritus
Marta Gallo , P.L., University of Buenos Aires, Professor Emerita
Mireya Jaimes-Freyre , Ph.D., Columbia University, Professor Emerita
Nélida López , B.A., Instituto Superior del Profesorado, Buenos Aires, Lecturer Emerita
Enrique Martínez-López , Ph.D., University of Madrid, Professor Emeritus
Allen W. Phillips , Ph.D., University of Michigan, Professor Emeritus
Frederick G. Williams
,
PhD., University of Wisconsin, Professor Emeritus