TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY
DEPARTMENT OF CLASSICAL & MODERN LANGUAGES & LITERATURES
| GRADUATE PROGRAM IN SPANISH |
Spanish Graduate Faculty
Laura J. Beard, Associate
Professor (Ph.D., Johns Hopkins, 1994) specializes in women writers of the
Americas, twentieth-century Latin American narrative, and critical theory. She
has published articles on narratives by Julieta Campos, Luisa Futoransky, Ana
María Shua, Nélida Piñon, Helena Parente Cunha and Jorge Luis Borges,
narratives by First Nations women of British Columbia and she is currently
finishing work on a book on contemporary women writers of the Americas. She
spent the 1999-2000 academic year as a Fulbright Senior Scholar in Mexico doing
research on the social construction of gender. She has also received grants for
other research projects in Mexico, Brazil and Argentina. She has
participated in NEH summer programs in narrative theory, and in environmental
ethics and issues in Alaska as well as a Newberry Library summer institute on
"American Indian Autobiography as Tribal and Personal History: Who Gets to
Tell the Story?" Dr. Beard also teaches courses in Brazilian
literature and is on the faculties of Comparative Literature, Women's Studies,
and Latin American and Iberian Studies. She is Editor of the comparative
literature journal
Intertexts.
laura.beard@ttu.edu
George Cole, Assistant Professor (Ph.D., Arizona State University, 2005) specializes in 20th-century Latin American literature and culture, with an emphasis on Cuba and Puerto Rico, on Afro-Cuban literature, culture and religions, and on 20th-century Latin American drama. Dr. Cole, who also holds a degree in French language and literature from the University of Puerto Rico, has over 12 years of experience working in the theatre as an actor, producer and director. He has been nominated to an AriZoni Theatre Award twice for his work as an actor in the plays "The Mission" and "Romeo y Julieta". He is currently researching the way Santería is represented in the Cuban cultural production of the past 100 years and how this representation varies based on the historical period in which it was produced. He also researches Caribbean ritual theatre, theatre as a tool for social criticism and change, and Cuban and Puerto Rican cinema. Dr. Cole’s professional papers and presentations treat themes ranging from the artistic production of Roberto Ramos Perea to the portrayal of popular culture in literature. george.cole@ttu.edu
Idoia Elola, Assistant Professor of Spanish and Applied Linguistics (Ph.D., University of Iowa, 2005). She holds degrees in English Philology, Teaching Spanish as a Second Language, and Second language Acquistion from Universidad del País Vasco, Universidad Complutense de Madrid and the University of Iowa. Her research interests include: Foreign language writing; feedback in writing and speaking; language and gender issues in language acquisition; context as a factor in language acquisition; technology as a variable in language acquisition; and classroom-based research. She has published articles on the topics of gendered language and the use of technology in the language classroom. idoia.elola@ttu.edu
Antonio Ladeira, Assistant Professor of Portuguese (Ph.D., University of California at Santa Barbara, 1999), Lecturer of Portuguese at Yale University, 1997-2002. His research interests include 19th- and 20th- century literatures of Brazil and Portugal, contemporary fiction and poetry of Lusophone African countries, contemporary Iberian and Latin American poetry, immigration literature and Portuguese American and Portuguese Canadian literature of the diaspora. He is the author of a book on poetry Uma Obscura Soberania: a questao da subjectividade em 'Poesia Toda' de Herberto Helder (Angelus Novus, forthcoming). He has published articles in books, anthologies and journals on Afro-Luso-Brazilian literary topics. Among the classes he has designed and taught are numerous courses on Portuguese, Brazilian and Lusophone African literatures, film and culture. He has taught and coordinated Language Courses in Portuguese and Spanish. Dr. Ladeira was the main organizer of two international conferences at Yale University on 'Luso-American Literature' (2001) and on the 'Portuguese and Brazilian novel' (2002). He has published three books of his own poetry: A Minha Cor Favorita e a Neve (2000), Todas as Linguas Sao Estrangeiras (1996) and As Sombras do Silencio (1987). antonio.ladeira@ttu.edu
Carmen Pereira-Muro, Assistant Professor (Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1998) specializes in 18th- and 19th-century studies, with a focus on questions of gender and nationalism. Dr. Pereira-Muro, who also holds a degree in Geography, History and Art from the Universidad de Santiago de Compostela in Spain, has published on 18th-century male friendship poetry and the construction of gendered sensibilities. She is preparing a book for publication on Emilia Pardo Bazán and the role of the intellectual woman on 19th-century central and regional nationalisms. She also researches Galician studies and her next research project is on the transatlantic relations between Cuba and Galicia's cultural nationalisms at the end of the 19th century and beginning of the 20th. Dr. Pereira-Muro is the author of Culturas de España: Una perspectiva histórica y temática, a textbook for upper-level students of Spanish. Culturas de España challenges the traditional teaching of "Spanish civilization,” emphasizing topics such as Spain's cultural plurality, women's history, and the political values of "culture" in the era of small nationalisms. carmen.pereira@ttu.edu
Alberto Julián Pérez, Professor (Ph.D., New York University,
1986) teaches nineteenth-century Spanish American literature, Modernism,
twentieth-century Spanish American poetry, Spanish American essay, and Jorge
Luis Borges. His books include Poética de prosa de Jorge Luis Borges (Gredos,
1986); La poética de de Rubén Darío (Orígenes, 1992); Modernismo,
Vanguardias, Posmodernidad (Corregidor, 1995) Los dilemas políticos de
la cultura letrada (Corregidor, 2003). He is the author of more than 60
journal articles or chapters in books, published or currently in press, and is
presently working on a research project on the Spanish American Essay. Professor
Pérez is Director of the Latin
American & Iberian Studies Program and President of Instituto
Sarmiento de Sociología e Historia of the Southwest of USA.
julian.perez@ttu.edu
Genaro J. Pérez, Professor (Ph.D., Tulane, 1976) has specialized in the
contemporary novel, both Peninsular and Latin American, teaching these fields as
well as courses in the Mexican novel and the Hispanic novel in the United
States. His research interests include the twentieth-century English and
American novel in relation to their counterparts in Spanish, as well as the
areas of oral literature, Hispanic children's literature, and Spanish detective
fiction. His publications include Formalist Elements in the Novels of Juan
Goytisolo; La novelística de J. Leyva; La novela como burla/juego: siete
experimentos novelescos de Gonzalo Torrente Ballester; La narrativa de Concha Alós:
texto, pretexto y contexto; and Ortodoxia y Heterodoxia de la novela
policiaca hispana: Variaciones sobre el género negro; plus more than 100
articles and papers on the foregoing and on other novelists such as Carlos
Fuentes, Camilo José Cela, Julio Cortázar, Teresa Pamies, Gustavo Sainz, Juan
García Ponce, Rosa Montero, Carmen Riera, and Manuel Puig, as well as studies
on García Lorca and Chicano literature. He is co-editor of Monographic
Review/Revista monográfica (monographicreview.org)
and Book Review Editor of Hispania.
His present work-in-progress is a monograph elucidating the typology of
intertextuality in selected post-modern Hispanic writers. He has published
poetry (Prosapoemas, 1980) and fiction (The Memoirs of John Conde,
2000). genaro.perez@ttu.edu
Janet Isabel Pérez, Paul Whitfield Horn Professor, Qualia Chair in Spanish
(Ph.D., Duke, 1961) specializes in twentieth-century Spanish literature, with
emphasis on the post-Civil War novel. Her teaching fields include all genres for
twentieth-century Peninsular literature-poetry, theater, prose fiction, and
essay—and she has published in all of these areas. Her books include The
Major Themes of Existentialism in the Works of Ortega y Gasset (1970); Ana
María Matute (1971); Miguel Delibes (1972); Novelistas femeninas
de la postguerra española [ed.] (1983); Gonzalo Torrente Ballester (1984);
Women Writers of Contemporary Spain (1988); Critical Studies on
Gonzalo Torrente Ballester [ed. W/Stephen Miller] (1988); The Spanish
Civil War in Literature [ed. w/Wendell Aycock] (1990); Dictionary of
Literature of the Iberian Peninsula [ed. w/Germán Bleiberg and Maureen
Ihrie], 2 vols. (1993);
Modern & Contemporary Spanish Women Poets
(1996; CD-ROM, 1997); Camilo José Cela Revisited: The Later Novels
(2000); and Feminist Encyclopedia of Spanish Literature [ed.
w/Maureen Ihrie, 2002]. She has published more than 230 articles and chapters in
books, more than 80 of them on women, and presented more than 150 professional
papers. Her current research involves a second book on Spanish women poets,
1969-2000. Dr. Pérez is co-editor of Monographic ReviewlRevista
monográfica, and Editor of Hispania, national journal of AATSP.
janet.perez@ttu.edu
Comfort
Pratt, Assistant
Professor of Spanish and Applied Linguistics; Coordinator of First Year Spanish
(Ph.D., Louisiana State University, 2000). She holds degrees in Spanish, French,
Linguistics, and Translation from University of Ghana, Universidad Complutense
de Madrid, and Texas A&M University. Her areas of specialization and
research include linguistics, pedagogy, translation, and Peninsular
literature. Her teaching fields include a wide range of courses pertaining to
Applied Linguistics, Second/Foreign Language Teaching, Spanish language,
Translation, and Medieval and Golden Age literature. She also has a lot of
experience in program coordination and curriculum design. Dr. Pratt is the
author of El español del noroeste de
Luisiana: Pervivencia de un dialecto amenazado (Spanish in Northwestern
Louisiana: Survival of a Threatened Dialect), which was published in 2004 by Editorial Verbum of Madrid, Spain. She is currently working on the
English translation of her book. c.pratt@ttu.edu
Rosslyn M. Smith, Professor, Assistant Vice Provost, Director of the
Teaching, Learning & Technology Center (Ph.D., New Mexico, 1975), works in
applied and descriptive linguistics, Spanish linguistics, and the teaching of
English as a second language. She has recently been named Vice Provost for
Distance Learning. rosslyn.smith@ttu.edu
Susan Isabel Stein, Associate Professor (Ph.D., University of California,
Irvine, 1991) specializes in Spanish American prose fiction and offers courses
on colonial chronicles, nineteenth-century prose fiction, vanguardista/criollista/indigenista
prose fiction and critical/literary theory. She has written articles on Sor
Juana and Inca Garcilaso, nineteenth-century literature, twentieth-century
novels and psychoanalytic theory, and is currently at work on a book project on
Inca Garcilaso's Historia general del Perú. She is the Spanish graduate
program admissions advisor. susanisabel.stein@ttu.edu
Web page: http://www5.tltc.ttu.edu/sstein
Jorge Zamora, Assistant Professor (Ph.D.,Texas Tech University, 1999) also
holds a law degree from Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (his thesis
dealt with corporate and mercantile law and he practiced law in Mexico City for
nearly a decade). Dr. Zamora has taught Spanish conversation for Law
Enforcement, Spanish for Banking Professionals, for Spanish Speakers, and
Commercial Spanish, and has worked as a research assistant and international
business consultant to the International Trade Center as well as a freelance
translator. His professional papers and presentations treat themes ranging from
Francisco Ayala to Renaissance poetry; immigration, investment, and trade law;
and numerous aspects of doing business in Mexico.
jorge.zamora@ttu.edu