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Jonathan Mayhew

Jonathan Mayhewgraduated from the University of California, Davis, in 1981 and received his PhD in Comparative Literature from Stanford in 1988.  He has taught at the University of Kansas since 1996.  He is the author of four books, Claudio Rodríguez and the Language of Poetic Vision (1990),  The Poetics of Self-Consciousness:  Twentieth Century Spanish Poetry (1994), Apocryphal Lorca:  Translation, Parody, Kitsch, (2009), and The Twilight of the Avant-Garde: Spanish Poetry 1980-2000 (2009).  His numerous articles and reviews have appeared in PMLA,  Hispanic Review, Revista de Estudios Hispánicos,  Revista de Libros, Insula, MLN, and elsewhere.       

Professor Mayhew is currently working on a book with the title The Persistence of Memory:  Antonio Gamoneda and Contemporary Spanish Poetry, a study of Gamoneda  in the context of the recuperation of historical memory in contemporary Spain. His  multiple interests include translation theory, poetry and performance, and the relation between poetry and music.  He blogs at Bemsha Swing mostly about jazz, American poetry, and scholarly writing.

Curriculum Vitae

Office Number		2624 Wescoe Hall
Office Phone		(785) 864-0287
E-mail		jmayhew@ku.edu
Home Page		http://jonathanmayhew.blogspot.com

 

 

 

 

This page was updated May 19, 2009 .