“Pablo Neruda, el último poeta romántico.”

Monday, Sept.  27, 2004 @ 7:30 p.m.
Willard Smith Library

Julio Ortega
Professor of Hispanic Studies
Brown University

Julio Ortega is Professor of Hispanic Studies at Brown University where he has taught since 1989. He received his Doctorate in Literature from the Universidad Católica in Lima, Perú and was awarded the degree of Doctor h.c. by the Universidad del Santa, in Peru. Professor Ortega is an accomplished scholar, poet, playwright, and novelist, with fifteen books published, as well as several critical editions to his credit. He was Professor of Spanish at the University of Texas at Austin for six years, and at Brandeis University for two years before joining the faculty at Brown. He also has been a visiting professor at numerous universities in the United States and abroad, including recent terms as Simon Bolivar Professor of Latin American Studies at the University of Cambridge (1995-96) and Cátedra de Estudios Avanzados at the Universidad Central de Venezuela (Summer 1995). Professor Ortega’s contribution to literary studies includes his involvement in several international publishing houses — as Director of the Serie Futura of the Biblioteca Ayacucho (Caracas), Coordinator of the Editorial Council, Archives Collection (Paris), and Co-editor of the series Archives (University of Pittsburgh) — and on the advisory committees of a number of academic journals. His teaching and research interests include twentieth-century Spanish American literature and culture, as well as literary theory. He is a co-founder of Brown University’s Transatlantic Project involving the study of literary currents between Europe and the Americas. Professor Ortega's recent publications include (i) literary criticism: Retrato de Carlos Fuentes (1995), Arte de innovar (1994), El discurso de la abundancia (1992), Una poetica del cambio (1992), Reapropriaciones: Cultura y literatura en Puerto Rico (1991); (ii) fiction: La mesa del padre (1995), Ayacucho, Good Bye (1994), Canto de hablar materno (1992); (iii) editions: The Picador Book of Latin American Short Stories, edited with Carlos Fuentes (1998), La Cervantiada (1995), Venezuela: fin de siglo (1994), and Rayuela de Julio Cortazar (1993).