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We are very sorry to inform you that Professor Brushwood died on May 27, 2007. We all miss his presence in and contributions to the Department.
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Vernon A. Chamberlin, Professor Emeritus, earned degrees from Washburn University (B.A.) and the University of Kansas (M.A., Ph.D.), where he was a University Fellow. He has held academic appointments at UCLA (1957-1959), Oklahoma State University (1959-1962), and the University of Kansas (1962-present). He is the co-author of "Clarín": The Critic in Action, and has written numerous articles on various aspects of 19th century literature, (Romanticism, costumbrismo, Realism, Naturalism and especially Galdós), which have appeared in PMLA, Hispania, Hispanic Review, Hispanófila, Symposium, Anales Galdosianos, and other journals. He was co-editor of the commemorative Galdós issue of Hispania (December, 1970). Aided by a Ford Foundation grant, he co-authored a book-length study of the Spanish and Spanish American contributors to La Revista Ilustrada de Nueva York. He has also completed a series of articles and translations concerning the Russian influence on, and interest in, Galdós. In 1972, 1977, 1990, and 1993 he did research at the Casa-Museo Pérez-Galdós and read papers at the first, second, fourth, and fifth Congreso Internacional Galdosiano. His investigation of the interrelationship of music and the novel has resulted in the book, Galdós and Beethoven: Fortunata y Jacinta, A Symphonic Novel and three articles concerning Tristana. 2002 publications include the articles “Echoes from the World of Rossini and Beethoven in Galdós’s Fortunata y Jacinta (Anales Gadosianos), and “La integridad del personaje galdosiano: “el caso del doctor Moreno Rubio” (Homenaje a Luce and Mercedes López-Baralt, as well as the book “The Perils of Interpreting Fortunata’s Dream” and Other Studies in Galdos: 1961-2002. Manuscripts submitted for publication during 2003 include, “No Annulment: Three Woman Characters of the Mid-1880s Confront the Problem of an Impossible Marriage,” and “ ‘Beethoven’ and “Sigue Beethoven’: The Sonata Form Structure of Galdos’ La desheredada.”
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2631 Wescoe Hall |
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Michael J. Doudoroff, Professor Emeritus, received degrees from Stanford University (B.A., M.A., Ph.D.). He has taught at the University of Kansas since 1965. His major field of interest is contemporary Spanish American poetry; he also works in fiction and folklore. He has published articles, translations, and reviews in Revista de Dialectología y Tradiciones Populares, Hispania, Hispanic American Report, Latin American Literary Review, Southern Folklore Quarterly, and Texto Crítico, Revista Chicano-Riqueña, Hispanic American Historical Review, and INTI in publications of the Colección Aldana (S & M Editores, Caracas) and of Monte Avila (Caracas). In collaboration with Prof. A. P. Debicki, he has edited Rubén Darío, Azul y Prosas Profanas (Madrid: Alhambra, 1985). He has edited a new translation of Rómulo Gallegos, Canaima (Pittsburgh UP, 1996). He is an associate editor of Venezuelan Literature and Arts Journal, and humanities coordinator of the Venezuela Network, an international association of scholars in humanities and social sciences. His current research is concerned with 20th Century Spanish American poetry, especially in Venezuela.
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Roberta Johnson, Professor Emerita, received her B.A. and M.A. degrees from the University of California, Davis and her Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles. She taught at K-State and the Claremont Colleges in California before joining the faculty at the University of Kansas in 1990. She has been a Fulbright lecturer at the University of Valladolid in Spain, has been an NEH Fellow at Duke University and has received research grants from the Graves Foundation, the Comité Conjunto Hispano-Americano para la Cooperación Cultural y Educativa, the NEH, and the Guggenheim Foundation. Her published books are Carmen Laforet, El ser y la palabra en Gabriel Miró, Crossfire: Philosophy and the Novel in Spain 1900-1930, Las bibliotecas de Azorín, and Gender and Nation in the Spanish Modernist Novel. Her articles on twentieth-century Spanish fiction have appeared in journals such as Hispania, Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos, Kentucky Romance Quarterly, Los Ensayistas, Letras Femeninas, Anales Azorinianos, Anales de la Literatura Española Contemporánea and Letras Peninsulares, among others. She has served on the Delegate Assembly of the MLA, the MLA 20th Century Spain Committee, the PMLA Advisory Committee, the PMLA Editorial Board, and the ADFL Executive Committee, and was an Associate Editor of Hispania for eight years. She currently serves on the editorial boards of Letras Femeninas, Anales de la Literatura Española Contempóranea, Decimononica, and Siglo Veintiuno. She is a member of the Committee for the Program for Cultural Cooperation Between the Spanish Ministry of Culture and U.S. Universities. Her research interests include the intersection of philosophy and literature, women writers and women's concerns in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Spanish fiction. She has held visiting professorships at the University of California at Irvine, the University of California at Los Angeles, and Claremont McKenna College.
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Raymond D. Souza, Professor Emeritus, received his B.A. (magna cum laude) from Drury College in 1958, and the M.A. (1960) and Ph.D. (1964) from the University of Missouri where he was an NDEA Title VI Fellow. He joined the University of Kansas faculty in 1963 and he served as chairman of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese from 1968 to 1974. He also has been president of the Association of North American Colombianists. His field is Spanish American literature. He has a special interest in prose fiction and poetry of the 20th century, as well as film. He has held research grants from the American Philosophical Society, the Exxon Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the Tinker Foundation, and the University of Kansas. He is the author of Major Cuban Novelists: Innovation and Tradition (1976), Lino Novás Calvo (1981), The Poetic Fiction of José Lezama Lima (1983), La historia en la novela hispanoamericana moderna (1988), Guillermo Cabrera Infante: Two Islands, Many Worlds, (1996), and some forty-five articles. He is presently studying the transformation of Hispanic texts into Hollywood films as a significant aspect of cultural history and multi-cultural expression.
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Robert C. Spires, Professor Emeritus, received B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Iowa. His major field of interest is the modern Spanish novel and literary theory. He is the author of La novela española de posguerra, Beyond the Metafictional Mode, Transparent Simulacra, and Post-Totalitarian Spanish Fiction. He has also published articles in Hispania, Hispanic Review, Insula, Papeles de Son Armadans, Kentucky Romance Quarterly, Anales de la Novela de Posguerra, Revista de Estudios Hispánicos, The American Hispanist, Revista Iberoamericana, and others. He has been awarded research fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Comité Conjunto de Cooperación Educativa EEUU-España, The Hall Center for the Humanities, and The Program for Cultural Cooperation Between Spain's Ministry of Culture and United States' Universities.
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George W. Woodyard, Professor Emeritus, received his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois in 1966. His research focuses on the theatre of Latin America; since 1967 he has edited the Latin American Theatre Review. His publications include several critical editions, anthologies and bibliographies, articles published in major publications both in the US and abroad, a collection of essays on Latin American playwrights, and contributions to major sections of Theatre Companies of the World and various Cambridge Guides to theatre. He received the Ollantay Prize for Theatre in Venezuela, the Armando Discépolo Prize for Theatre Research in Buenos Aires, the Miami Teatro Avante life-time achievement award and the Cairo Experimental Theatre Festival for theatre research. He has held grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the German government, the Japan-US Fulbright Commission, and he has been a frequent USIA lecturer in Latin America.
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2619 Wescoe Hall |
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