People
Luis Dávila | Faculty
Professor, Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Director of Chicano-Riqueño Studies
Office: Ballantine Hall 849
TEL: 855-5257
Email: davilal
Education
Ph.D., Romance Languages, The Ohio State University, 1970
M.A, The Ohio State University, 1965
B.S. in Chemistry, St. Mary's University of Texas, 1960, magna cum laude
Specializations
- Spanish American Literature: 19th and 20th Century Narrative, Poetry and theEssay
- Mexican Literature: Prose Narrative, Poetry, Essay and Theater
- U.S. Latino Literature: All genres
- The works of Octavio Paz
Selected Publications
- "Gloria Anzaldúa and Octavio Paz: The Borderlands Redux," Indiana Journal of Hispanic Literatures, 12 (1998): 51-57.
- "Meditaciones": Eight poematic essays treating Chicano and Puerto Rican topics, Revista Chicano-Riqueña, 1973-1979.
- "Carlos Fuentes y su concepto de la novela," Revista Iberoamericana, 116-117 (julio-diciembre 1981): 73-78.
- "Otherness in Chicano literature," Contemporary Mexico, Papers of the Intrnational Congress of Mexican History, edited by James Wilkie et al (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1976): 556-63.
- "Chicano Fantasy Through a Glass Darkly," XVI Congreso del Instituto Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana (East Lansing: Latin American Studies Center, 1975): 245-48.
Honors and Awards
- NEH Fellow for the Year 1972-73.
- Director of Chicano-Riqueño Studies, 1975-Present
- Owen Duston Scholar/Lecturer at Wabash College, 1985.
- Honors College Faculty Member, 1993-Present.
- Wells Scholars Selection Committee, 1995-Present.
Current Research Projects
- The Dialogic Writings of Octavio Paz.
- Borderlands Literature and the Mexican Cultural Labyrinth
- U.S. Latino Literature and Post-Modernity
- Cultural Studies and Recent Latino Writing
- The Poetry of José Emilio Pacheco, Efraín Huerta and Nicanor Parra
