Gonzalo Navajas

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Distinguished Professor, Spanish and Portuguese
School of Humanities
Film & Media Studies
School of Humanities
PH.D., University of California, Los Angeles
Licenciatura en Filosofia y Letras, Universidad de Barcelona
Phone: (949) 824-8428
Fax: (949) 824-2803
Email: gnavajas@uci.edu
University of California, Irvine
370 Humanities Hall
Mail Code: 5275
Irvine, CA 92697
Research Interests
Eigtheenth through twentieth-first century Spanish literature and intellectual history; film; critical theory; cultural criticism, creative writing
Academic Distinctions
EDITORIAL AND ADVISORY BOARD POSITIONS

I. Editorial Boards

1. Anales de la literatura española contemporánea (Temple University)

2. Siglo XX/20th Century. (University of Colorado, Boulder)

3. Letras Peninsulares (Davidson College)

4. Discurso literario (Oklahoma State University)

5. Cuadernos de narrativa (Switzerland)

6. España contemporánea/Contemporary Spain (Ohio State University and Universidad de Zaragoza)

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. (Texas Tech University)

14. La Tabla Redonda. (University of Vigo, Spain)

15. Evaluator of articles for the Consejo Superior de investigaciones científicas (Madrid: Revista de literatura)

16. Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes. Advisory Board.

17. TRANSMODERNITY: Journal of Peripheral Cultural Production of the Luso-Hispanic World.

18. Revista de ALCES XXI: Journal of Contemporary Spanish Literature and Film. (University of Valladolid, Spain)

II. Main Editor of Journal Publications
1. La tabla redonda. Gonzalo Torrente Ballester 10th Anniversary Special Volume. October 2010. I am the author of the Introduction to this Special Volume.

III. Advisory Board
1. Asociación internacional de literatura y cine españoles Siglo XXI. Universidad de Valladolid, Spain and various American universities.

MEMBERSHIP IN LEARNED NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL CULTURAL SOCIETIES
--2010. Member of Asociación Internacional de literatura y cine españoles Siglo XXI (ALCES).
--2007. Elected Member of the North American Academy of the Spanish Language and Correspondent of the Royal Academy of the Language.
--2006. Member of La Orden de Don Quijote, which is the highest honor conferred by the Sigma Delta Pi National Spanish Honors Society. 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. Past elected members of this society include Carlos Fuentes, Elena Poniatowska, and Fernando Arrabal.
--2003. Appointed Member of the Miguel Delibes Chair of the Universidad de Valladolid and the Graduate Center of CUNY, New York.
RECOGNITION IN LITERARY VOLUMES AND VIRTUAL COLLECTIONS
-- Contornos de la narrativa española actual (2000-2009): un diálogo entre creadores y críticos. Toni Dorca and Palmar Alvárez, eds. Berlín: Vervuert, 2011
-- Antología de escritores españoles en los Estados Unidos. Gerardo Piña-Rosales. New York:Academia Norteamericana de la lengua española, 2007, 23-37
--“Los críticos-novelistas españoles en California. La ficción en los márgenes,” España contemporánea. XVII, 1, Spring 2004. 103-114.
--Critical and Analytical Entry in Diccionario Espasa de Literatura Española, Jesús Bragante, ed. Madrid: Espasa-Calpe, 2003. p. 655.
--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 Cervantes virtual.com/FichaObra.html?Ref=19880
--Self-portrait in the Blog La nave de los locos, 2010

RECOGNITION IN SPECIAL ACADEMIC CHAIRS

Biographical and Bibliographical Entries 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

-Selection Committee for the induction of new candidates in La orden de Don Quijote. 2008-2009.
-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.
-Nobel Prize for Literature, 1997. Nominating Member for the Swedish Academy.

INTERVIEWS AND MEDIA EVENTS
--Interview in Alma en las palabras (Blog of Toni Montesinos). Feb 27, 2011.
--Article on the Presentation of the Volumen Extraordinario of La tabla redonda (100th anniversary of Gonzalo Torrente Ballester). Gonzalo Torrente Ballester Foundation. Faro de Vigo, Nov. 20, 2010.
--Official Presenter of the Volumen Extraordinario of La tabla redonda (100th anniversary of Gonzalo Torrente Ballester). Gonzalo Torrente Ballester Foundation. University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain. Nov. 19, 2010.
--Interview, Faro de Vigo, Nov. 18, 2010.
--Interview on “Spanish in the United States” (El español en Estados Unidos). Letras Libres (Mexico). May 2008, vol. 113, 102-103.
--Live Interview in Spanish National Television (forty-five minutes with two other panelists). Nov. 19, 2007.
--Live Web Presentation. Frankfurt International Book Fair (Guest Writer for the Catalonia Guest Culture of the Fair). Oct. 13, 2007.
--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. (National Spanish Radio). 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. (Broadcasted nationally and internationally via satellite).

PARTICIPATION IN NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL PROJECTS
-- Member of the UCHRI Comparative Iberian Studies Working Group (established 2011).
--Member of the International Collaborative Research Project “Hybrid Storyspaces: Redefining the Critical Enterprise in Twenty-First Century Hispanic Literature.” Organizing Institution: Cornell University. 2008-2010.
--Member of the Scientific Committee of the 10th World Congress of the World Association of Semiotics. Universidade da Coruña, Spain. September 22-26, 2009
--Member of the Scientific Committee of the Alatriste Congress at the University of Murcia, Spain, 2007-2008.
--Member of the Research Group on Contemporary Spanish Literature and Film in collaboration with the Universidad Complutense, Madrid, and the University of Cambridge, England. 2007-2012.
--Member of Advisory Board for the Congress on Nation and Nationalities in Spain, Ohio State University. 2004-2006.
Appointments
I regularly teach and lecture at various universities and other cultural institutions in the US, Europe, and Latin America.
INTERVIEWS AND MEDIA EVENTS
INTERVIEWS AND MEDIA EVENTS
--Interview for the International Working Group “¿Por qué la literatura?, September 9, 2020.” www.porquelaliteratura.com. Length: 48:00 minutes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gaAPX_5VvB8

--Interview for National Radio in Paraguay. Program, Lo que se cuenta, Sponsored by Universidad del Norte. August 7, 2019.
--Podcast of the Spanish Radio 5 program, "Libros para comprender, (Books to Understand)" of RTVE.ES (Radio y Televisión Española, National Spanish TV and Radio).
http://www.rtve.es/alacarta/audios/libros-para-comprender/libros-para-comprender-literatura-nacion-siglo-xxi-28-09-18/4759102/. Nine minute podcast on Literatura y nación en el siglo XXI. Ensayos teóricos y prácticos.
--Interview. "Entrevista a Gonzalo Navajas, autor de Literatura y nación en el siglo XXI (Ensayos teóricos y prácticos)"Editum.es. University of Murcia, Spain. http://edit.um.es/blog/entrevista-a-gonzalo-navajas-autor-de-literatura-y-nacion-en-el-siglo-xxi-ensayos-teoricos-y-practicos/. May 11, 2018. 1-9 pp.
--Interview "Cazabaret conversa con Gonzalo Navajas, autor de El manuscrito Durruti," La Librería de Cazarabet, Teruel, Spain. Jan. 11, 2015.
--Newspaper article on my lecture in the International Congress of Galdosistas. La Provincia (Las Palmas de Gran Canaria). June 19, 2013.
--Interview in Alma en las palabras (Blog of Toni Montesinos). Feb 27, 2011.
--Article on the Presentation of the Volumen Extraordinario of La tabla redonda (100th anniversary of Gonzalo Torrente Ballester). Gonzalo Torrente Ballester Foundation. Faro de Vigo, Nov. 20, 2010.
--Official Presenter of the Volumen Extraordinario of La tabla redonda (100th anniversary of Gonzalo Torrente Ballester). Gonzalo Torrente Ballester Foundation. University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain. Nov. 19, 2010.
--Interview, Faro de Vigo, Nov. 18, 2010.
--Interview on “Spanish in the United States” (El español en Estados Unidos). Letras Libres (Mexico). May 2008, vol. 113, 102-103.
--Live Interview in Spanish National Television (forty-five minutes with two other panelists). Nov. 19, 2007.
--Live Web Presentation. Frankfurt International Book Fair (Guest Writer for the Catalonia Guest Culture of the Fair). Oct. 13, 2007.
--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. (National Spanish Radio). 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. (Broadcasted nationally and internationally via satellite).
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.
Awards and Honors
Doctor Honoris Causa in the Humanities. Universidad del Norte, Asunción, Paraguay. August 7, 2019.
Publications
Book Chapters and Articles.
I have published more than two hundred articles in collective volumes and journals
BOOKS

A. Criticism and Theory
--El intelectual público y las ideologías modernas. De los años 30 a la posmodernidad. Sevilla: Renacimiento, 2019, 240 pp.
--Literatura y nación en el siglo XXI. Ensayos teóricos y prácticos. Murcia: Publicaciones de la Universidad de Murcia, 2017, 203 pp.
--Teoría y práctica de la novela española posmoderna. La posmodernidad desde el siglo XXI. Barcelona: Calambur, 2016, 235 pp.
--El paradigma de la enfermedad y la literatura del siglo XX. Valencia: Publicaciones de la Universidad de Valencia, 2013, 254 pp.
--La utopía en las narrativas contemporáneas (Novela/cine/arquitectura). Zaragoza: Prensas Universitarias de la Universidad de Zaragoza, 2008. 145 pp.
--La modernidad como crisis. Los clásicos modernos ante el siglo XXI. Madrid: Biblioteca Nueva, 2004, 188 pp.
--La narrativa española en la era global. Imagen/Comunicación/Ficción. Barcelona: EUB-Octaedro, 2002, 186 pp.
--Más allá de la posmodernidad. Estética de la nueva novela y cine españoles. Barcelona: EUB (Ediciones Universitarias de Barcelona), 1996, 191 pp.
--Unamuno desde la posmodernidad. Antinomia y síntesis ontológica. Barcelona: Promociones y publicaciones universitarias, 1992, 202 pp. (2nd revised edition of #6).
--Pío Baroja. El escritor y la crítica. Barcelona: Editorial Teide, 1990, 116 pp.
--Miguel de Unamuno: bipolaridad y síntesis ficcional. Una lectura posmoderna. Barcelona: Promociones y publicaciones universitarias (PPU), 1988, 202 pp.
--Teoría y práctica de la novela española posmoderna. Barcelona: Llibres del Mall, 1987, 205 pp.
--Mímesis y cultura en la ficción. Teoría de la novela. London: Tamesis, 1985, 214 pp.
--La novela de Juan Goytisolo. Madrid: Sociedad española de librería (SGEL), 1979, 260 pp.

B. Fiction
--Comenzar de cero. Pedagogía de un exilio americano. Seville, Alfar, 2021 (Novel).
--El manuscrito Durruti. Sevilla:Alfar, 2014, 187 pp
--En blanco y negro. Madrid: Verbum, 2007. 187 pp. (Novel).
--La última estación. Madrid: Verbum, 2001, 242 pp. (Novel).
--Una pregunta más para el amor. Barcelona: Promociones y publicaciones universitarias (PPU), 1991. 177 pp. (Novel)
--De la destrucción de la urbe. Barcelona: Llibres del Mall, 1987, 210 pp. (Novel)

C. E-Books

--La destrucción de la urbe. New York: Digitalia, 2011. 296 pp.
--Una pregunta más para el amor. New York: Digitalia, 212 pp. (forthcoming)

--I have published many chapters, essays and articles in volumes and journals.
Other Experience
Research Centers
Cátedra (Chair) Arturo Pérez-Reverte, University of Murcia, Murcia, Spain
Cátedra Camilo José Cela (Coruña, Spain).
Member of the working group, ¿Por qué la literatura?, integrated by a group of fifty writers of the Spanish-speaking world. www.porquelaliteratura.com (2020-2022).
Appointed Member of the Miguel Delibes Chair of the Universidad de Valladolid and the Graduate Center of CUNY, New York.
Last updated
02/26/2023