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Hugo Achugar

Award-winning poet, essayist. novelist, and critic/theorist Hugo Achugar has published many volumes of his work including literary studies of Donoso, Uruguayan modernism and testimonio. He holds his PhD from the University of Pittsburgh (1980), and is currently a professor of University of Miami (Florida). He has taught in Northwestern University, UDELAR, Universidad Simon Bolivar (Venezuela), and others. His interests are Contemporary Latin American Literature and Culture. Among his innumerable works we have:

Publications (Books authored):

  1. Ideologías y estructuras narrativas en José Donoso. (1950-1970) . Caracas: Celarg, 1979.
  2. Poesía y sociedad (Uruguay,1880-1911) . Montevideo: Arca, 1986.
  3. La balsa de la Medusa. Montevideo: Trilce, 1992.
  4. La biblioteca en ruinas. (Reflexiones culturales desde la periferia). Montevideo: Trilce, 1994.
  5. Planetas sin boca. (Escritos efímeros sobre arte, cultura y literatura ) . Montevideo : Trilce, 2004; Forthcoming in Portuguese by Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (October 2005)

 

Ana Maria Bidegain

Screen shot of a screen enlarger PhD in History from Catholic University of Louvaine (Belgium, 1975). Post-Doctoral Studies from Catholic University of Louvaine (Belgium, 1995). She is currently an Associate Professor at the Department of Religious Studies at Florida International University (Miami, Florida). She has also been a Professor in numerous universities such as Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Universidad de Los Andes (Colombia), Universidad Pontificia Javeriana (Colombia), and Universidad Bolivariana de Medellin (Colombia). She has been Visiting Researcher at Harvard University, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (Paris, France), Universidad de Barcelona (Spain), Duke University, and Centro Eclesiale Italiano (Italy). Her main interests are History of Religious Movements in Latin America, Feminist Theory, Culture, and Religious Studies.

Publications (Books authored)

  1. Mulheres: Autonomía e controle religioso na América Latina . Editora Vozes, Petrópolis, 1996
  2. Historia dos Cristaos na América Latina. Editora Vozes de Petrópolis, Brasil, 1993
  3. Nacionalismo, militarismo y dominación en América Latina . Edit. Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, 1983.
  4. Así actuaron los cristianos en la Historia de América Latina Tomo I- CIEC, Bogotá, 1985.
  5. Globalización y diversidad religiosa en Colombia ,/ with Juan Diego Demera Universidad Nacional de Colombia – sede Bogotá- 2005
  6. Historia del Cristianismo en Colombia. Corrientes y diversidad edit.Taurus. Bogotá 2005

David Pharies

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Ph.D. Romance Philology. University of California, Berkeley. (1979). Professor of Spanish at the University of Florida, enjoys an international reputation as an expert on the history and development of the Spanish language. His publications deal chiefly with Spanish morphology, lexicology, and etymology. He has been Visiting Professor at Romanisches Seminar, Universität Heidelberg, Universidad de Salamanca, and others.

He is currently the chair of the Department of Romance Languages & Literatures at the University of Florida.

Publications (Books authored)

  1. A Brief History of the Spanish Language . Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Forthcoming.
  2. Breve historia de la lengua española . Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Forthcoming.
  3. Diccionario etimológico de los sufijos españoles y de otros elementos finales . Madrid: Editorial Gredos, 2002.
  4. Bibliography of Latin and Ibero-Romance Suffixation. Madison: Medieval Seminary of Hispanic Studies, 1994.
  5. The Origin and Development of the Ibero-Romance - nc -/- ng - Suffixes . Tübingen: Niemeyer, 1990.

 

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