UCI Department of Spanish and Portuguese
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Gonzalo Navajas

Professor, Spanish and Portuguese
School of Humanities
Film & Media Studies
School of Humanities
PH.D.University of California, Los Angeles
Licenciatura en Filosofia y LetrasUniversidad de Barcelona

Phone: (949) 824-8428
Email: gnavajas@uci.edu

University of California
370 Humanities Hall
Mail Code: 5275
Irvine, CA 92697

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Research Interests

Eigtheenth through twentieth-first century Spanish literature and intellectual history; film; critical theory; cultural criticism, creative writing

URL

 Personal Website Cátedra Miguel Delibes Portal de la Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes

Academic Distinctions

Elected Numerary Member of the North American Academy of the Spanish Language and Corresponding Member of the Royal Spanish Academy of the Language

Editorial Boards

1. Anales de la literatura española contemporánea

2. Siglo XX/20th Century

3. Letras Peninsulares

4. Discurso literario

5. Cuadernos de narrativa (Switzerland)

6. España contemporánea/Contemporary Spain

7. Diálogos hispánicos. (The Netherlands)

8. Hiperferia. (SUNY, Stony Brook)

9. Theatralia Revista de Poética del Teatro. (Universidad de Vigo, Spain)

10. Boletín de la Biblioteca Menéndez y Pelayo. (Santander, Spain)

11. Lectura y signo. (Universidad de León, Spain).

12. Siglo XXI. (The Journal of the Miguel Delibes Chair. Graduate Center, CUNY, New York and Universidad de Valladolid, Spain).

13. Monographic Review/Revista monográfica.

RECOGNITION IN LITERARY VOLUMES AND VIRTUAL COLLECTIONS
-Critical and Analytical Entry in Diccionario Espasa de Literatura Española, Jesús Bragante, ed. Madrid: Espasa-Calpe, 2003. p. 655.
--“Los críticos-novelistas españoles en California. La ficción en los márgenes,” España contemporánea. XVII, 1, Spring 2004. 103-114.
-- Antología de escritores españoles en Estados Unidos. Gerardo Piña-Rosales, ed. (forthcoming).
--Personal Home Page in the Directory of Writers of the Miguel Delibes Chair of the Universidad de Valladolid and the Graduate Center of CUNY, New York: http://www.catedramdelibes.com.
--Portal de la Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes: http://www.cervantesvirtual.com/FichaObra.html?Ref=19880


RECOGNITION IN SPECIAL ACADEMIC CHAIRS

Entry in the Directory of Writers of the Miguel Delibes Chair of the Universidad de Valladolid (Spain) and the Graduate Center of CUNY, New York.

PRIZES AND AWARDS SELECTION MEMBER

-Nobel Prize for Literature, 2002. Nominating Member for the Swedish Academy.
-MLA Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize in Latin American and Spanish literatures (2000-2003). Committee Member.
- Evaluator for the Evaluation of Doctorate Programs in the USA for the 2007 Survey of the National Research Council.

INTERVIEWS AND MEDIA EVENTS
--Book Presentation and Round Table on my book, La modernidad como crisis. Los clásicos modernos ante el siglo XXI. Librería La Central, Barcelona. June 18, 2004.
--Writing in/from North America: the Fiction of the Spanish Critics - Novelists in the U.S.A.. Los Angeles: Dolce Vita Productions. [videorecording, 134 min.], v.1-2. University of California, Irvine. Multimedia Center. PQ6144 .K468 2003
--“Spanish Writer/Critics in the US” The University of Kentucky Meeting, April 2003.
--Interview on my book, La narrativa española en la era global. Radio Nacional de España. Radio-4. Program: El color de la nit. July 15, 2002.
--“Gonzalo Navajas: A Writer’s Jouney,” (Documentary on my work). Director: Oscar González-Barreto. Dolce Vita /VMP Production. 25 mins., 2006.
--The MLA National Radio Series. “The Literature of the Spanish Civil War” What’s the Word Radio. New York. (To be aired nationally and internationally via satellite).

OTHER RECOGNITION
Made member of La Orden de Don Quijote, which is the highest honor conferred by Sigma Delta Pi. The Order of Don Quijote recognizes exceptional and meritorious service in the fields of Hispanic scholarship, the teaching of Spanish, and the promotion of good relations between English-speaking countries and those of Spanish speech.

Research Abstract

I work on a wide selection of topics on modern and contemporary literature and culture. My main emphasis is modern fiction both from a theoretical and analytical perspective. In addition I work on contemporary European film, critical theory, and cultural criticism. In addition to my works on criticism, I have published four novels and I work on creative writing.

Publications
 
I. BOOKS

A. Criticism and Theory

1. La modernidad como crisis. Los clásicos modernos ante el siglo XXI. Madrid: Biblioteca Nueva, 2004, 188 pp.

2. La narrativa española en la era global. Imagen/Comunicación/Ficción. Barcelona: EUB-Octaedro, 2002, 186 pp.

3. Más allá de la posmodernidad. Estética de la nueva novela y cine españoles. Barcelona: EUB (Ediciones Universitarias de Barcelona), 1996, 191 pp.

4. Unamuno desde la posmodernidad. Antinomia y síntesis ontológica. Barcelona: Promociones y publicaciones universitarias, 1992, 202 pp. (2nd revised edition of #6).

5. Pío Baroja. El escritor y la crítica. Barcelona: Editorial Teide, 1990, 116 pp.

6. Miguel de Unamuno: bipolaridad y síntesis ficcional. Una lectura posmoderna. Barcelona: Promociones y publicaciones universitarias (PPU), 1988, 202 pp.

7. Teoría y práctica de la novela española posmoderna. Barcelona: Llibres del Mall, 1987, 205 pp.

8. Mímesis y cultura en la ficción. Teoría de la novela. London: Tamesis, 1985, 214 pp.

9. La novela de Juan Goytisolo. Madrid: Sociedad española de librería (SGEL), 1979, 260 pp.

B. Fiction

10. En blanco y negro. Madrid: Verbum, 2007. 187 pp. (Novel).

11. La última estación. Madrid: Verbum, 2001, 242 pp. (Novel)

12. Una pregunta más para el amor. Barcelona: Promociones y publicaciones universitarias (PPU), 1991. 177 pp. (Novel)

13. De la destrucción de la urbe. Barcelona: Llibres del Mall, 1987, 210 pp. (Novel)

--I have published many essays and articles in volumes and journals.
 

 

 
 
   
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