School of International Letters and Cultures
CURRICULUM VITAE
EMIL VOLEK
School of International Letters and Cultures
ArizonaStateUniversity
Tempe, AZ 85287-0202
(480) 965-6282
FAX (480) 965-0135
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PRESENT POSITION
Professor of Spanish, Literary and Cultural Theory, Latin American Literature and Culture, Central European Literature and Culture, at the School of International Letters and Cultures (former Department of Languages and Literatures), Arizona State University, Tempe Campus, 1984-date. Affiliate of the ArizonaCenter for Medieval and Renaissance Studies. Founding Member of the Russian and East European Studies Consortium (now The Melikian Center:Russian, Eurasian, & East European Studies). Honors Faculty.
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
1984-dateProfessor of Spanish, ArizonaStateUniversity.
1978-1984Associate Professor of Spanish, ArizonaStateUniversity.
1976-1978Assistant Professor of Spanish, ArizonaStateUniversity.
1974-1976Visiting Professor, Romanisches Seminar der Universität zu Köln, Cologne.
1972-1973Visiting Professor, CharlesUniversity, Prague.
1969-1974Research Fellow and Senior Research Fellow in Ibero-American Literatures, Institute of Languages and Literatures (including former Cabinet for Modern Philology), Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, Prague.
EDUCATION
CharlesUniversity, Prague (Czechoslovakia), 1961-1967, Degree: Prom. Phil. [Equivalent of M.A.] Spanish (Major) and English (Minor) (Portuguese as a Second Minor, 1962-1965, Catalan, 1963-1964).
Universidad de La Habana (Cuba), 1966. (Studies in Spanish American poetry under Roberto Fernández Retamar and research in Spanish American and Cuban literature.)
CharlesUniversity, Prague, 1970, Doctor Philosophiae in History of Romance Literatures, Specialization in History of Spanish and Ibero-American Literatures, and in Theory of Literature.
Dissertation: Dos décadas de la narrativa de Alejo Carpentier: 1944-1962. Director: Oldřich Bĕlič.
CharlesUniversity, Prague, 1970-1972, postgraduate program in Aesthetics.
Thesis: Dialectics of the Specificity of Art: Russian Formalism, Czech Structuralism, and Marxism, 1973 (in Czech).
The School of Criticism and Theory, University of California at Irvine, Summer 1978 (NEH Fellowship; seminars with Hayden White, Wolfgang Iser, and Fredric Jameson).
FELLOWSHIPS, AWARDS AND HONORS
Commemorative Centennial Medal “José Lezama Lima,” awarded for the meritorious translations to Spanish of Slavic cultural theory, by Instituto Cubano del Libro, Havana, Cuba. November 2016.
Included in “notable 100 Czech émigré scientists encyclopedia.”Sto českých vědců v exilu. Soňa Strbanová and Antonín Kostlán, eds. Prague: Academia, 2011, pp. 554-57.
Central and RockyMountain region representative to MLA Delegate Assembly, elected for the 2010-2012 period.
Nomination for Distinguished Mentor, GraduateSchool, ASU, finalist 2008.
Nominated for the “2007 Professor of the Year” Award, sponsored by ASU Parents Association.
Invited to serve on the Jury for the 2003 Premio Iberoamericano de Letras José Donoso, sponsored by the Universidad de Talca, Chile, September 2003. (Isabel Allende was the winner.)
Honorary Member of the Seminar on Poetics, Universidad Veracruzana, Xalapa, Mexico, 2003.
Lead Investigator for the Project “Building a Latin American Literary Canon: A Multi-Volume Handbook of Latin American Literature (Tools for Undergraduate Teaching and Research).” Multi-Investigator Proposal Development Grant Program, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, ArizonaStateUniversity, 2003. (With Profs. Alberto Acereda and Enrique Ballón-Aguirre.)
Commemorative Medal, awarded by Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña, San Juan, 1999.
Selected as a Miembro de Número, Sociedad Cultural Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Mexico, 1995.
Outstanding Mentor Award, Associated Students of ArizonaStateUniversity, 1993.
Arts/Social Sciences/Humanities Grant for Tenured Faculty, “Literature and Censorship,” ArizonaStateUniversity, 1990.
Distinguished Research and Creative Activity Award of the GraduateCollege, Arizona State University, 1989-1990.
"Pedro Páramo y el teatro colectivo del absurdo: Una obra en busca de su texto y del género literario." Earned the prize for the best critical essay on Juan Rulfo, sponsored by Discurso Literario and OklahomaStateUniversity, 1987.
Fulbright Research Grant for the Project "Semiotics of Literature Under Pressure: Aesthetics and Pragmatics of the Argentine novel in the 1970s and 1980s," Argentina, April-August, 1987.
Fulbright Fellowship for the Seminar "Latin America Today" (research travel through Colombia, Ecuador, Bolivia, and Argentina), Summer 1985.
NEH Fellowship for The School of Criticism and Theory, University of California at Irvine, Summer 1978.
Fellowship, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (Germany), Habilitation Project (work on Juan Rulfo), 1976-, declined.
Fellowship, Stifterverband für die deutsche Wissenschaft (Germany), 1975-1976.
Postgraduate Fellowship, Cabinet for Modern Philology, CzechoslovakAcademy of Sciences, Prague, 1968-1969.
SIGNIFICANT ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE
1996-2008Director of the Spanish Graduate Program (reelected 1999, 2002, 2005).
(Managedprogram of about 50 graduate students and some 15 faculty
members in a nationally ranked research doctoral program.
Introduced Concentration in Cultural Studies in the Ph.D. in Spanish, in 2000.
Initiated several substantial overhauls of graduate programs in Spanish.
Guidedthe CLAS Dean’s initiative aiming to move the graduate program in Spanish to the top twenty programs in the country, with success.)
1994-2005Member of the REESC and DLL Personnel Committees.
(Dealt with promotion and tenure issues.)
1994-1999Member of the DLL Advisory Committee
(Dealt with academic policies, bylaws, and self-government issues.)
1988-1990Coordinator of the Spanish Program.
(Dealt with issues such as course scheduling in a threethousand plus undergraduate and graduate programs, faculty evaluation for merit and diverse personnel issues in a semi-autonomous unit at that time.)
PUBLICATIONS
BOOKS AUTHORED
Z kulturních výročí navržených Světovou radou míru: Percy Bysshe Shelley, Pío Baroja y Nessi, Carlos Vaz Ferreira [From the Cultural Anniversaries Proposed by the World Peace Council]. ÚČSL ČSAV, Prague, 1972. 60 pp. [With Academic Zdeněk Vančura.]
La arquitectónica de la narrativa de Alejo Carpentier [manuscript of approx. 400 typed pages, accepted for publication by Ediciones Universitarias, Valparaíso, Chile, impounded and burnt in the aftermath of the military coup in 1973].
Cuatro claves para la modernidad: Análisis semiótico de textos hispánicos. Aleixandre, Borges, Carpentier, Cabrera Infante. Editorial Gredos, Madrid (Spain), 1984. 182 pp.
Reviewed in:
Hispania (USA) 68.3 (1985): 531-32 (Stephanie Merrim).
Señales (Argentina) No. 186 (1985) (Violeta Peralta de Loma).
World Literature Today (USA) 59.2 (1985): 249 (Wendy B. Faris).
Iberoamericana (Germany) 10.1 (1986): 94-95 (Klaus Meyer-Minnemann).
Metaestructuralismo: Poética moderna, semiótica narrativa y filosofía de las ciencias sociales. Editorial Fundamentos, Madrid (Spain), 1985. 284 pp.
Reviewed in:
Revista iberoamericana (USA) No. 140 (1987): 710-12 (Juan Manuel Marcos).
Revista de literatura (Spain) 49.98 (1987): 600-03 (Luis Albuquerque).
Hispania (USA) 71.3 (1988): 556-57 (Héctor Mario Cavallari).
Semiotica (USA) 74.1-2 (1989): 157-64 (Lisa Block de Behar).
Escritos: Revista del Centro de Ciencias del Lenguaje (Mexico) No. 6 (1990): 128-33 (Sergio Lira Coronado).
Literatura hispanoamericana entre la modernidad y la postmodernidad. [Realismo mágico, Rulfo, Vargas Llosa, Paz] Serie Cuadernos de Trabajo, 9, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá (Colombia), 1994. 66 pp.
Reviewed in:
World Literature Today (USA) 70.1 (1996): 172 (Leland Guyer).
Boletín de reseñas bibliográficas (Buenos Aires) 4 (1996) (Ma. Cristina Rivero).
Znak, funkce a hodnota: Estetika a sémiotika umĕní Jana Mukařovského v proudech současného myšlení. Zápisky z podzemí postmoderny [Sign, Function, and Value. Aesthetics and Semiotics of the Arts of Jan Mukarovsky within the Contemporary Critical Currents. Notes From the Postmodern Underground]. Prague: Charles University/Paseka, 2004. 113 pp.
Reviewed in:
Česká literatura (Prague) 2 (2005): 254-65 (Aleš Haman), 265-74 (Josef Šebek).
Slavic and East European Journal 49.4 (Winter 2005): 686-88 (Andrew M. Drozd).
Svět literatury (Prague) 32 (2005): 189-94 (Vladimír Svatoň).
La mujer que quiso ser amada por Dios: Sor Juana Inés en la cruz de la crítica. Madrid: Verbum, 2016. 257 pp.
Reviewed in:
Boletín CeMaB (Centro de Estudios Iberoamericanos Mario Benedetti, Universidad de Alicante) 8 (julio-dic. 2016): 30-33 (Virginia Gil Amate).
BOOKS EDITED
Antología del Formalismo ruso y el grupo de Bajtin. I. Polémica, historia y teoría literaria. Editorial Fundamentos, Madrid (Spain), 1992. 278 pp.[Introduction, edition and translation from Russian into Spanish.]
Antología del Formalismo ruso y el grupo de Bajtin. II. Semiótica del discurso y postformalismo bajtiniano. Editorial Fundamentos, Madrid (Spain), 1995. 282 pp. [Introduction, edition and translation from Russian into Spanish.]
Signo, función y valor: Estética y semiótica del arte de Jan Mukařovský. Plaza & Janés, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, 2000. 503 pp. (Introductions; edition with the translator Jarmila Jandová.)
Reviewed in:
Revue Proglas (Brno) 13.10 (2002): 33-35 (Michal Fousek).
Hermes criollo (Montevideo) 2.5 (2003): 115-17 (Claudio Paolini).
Revista de literatura (CSIC, Madrid) 129 (2003): 259-60 (Miguel Angel Garrido Gallardo).
Ideas y valores (Bogota) 112 (2000): 112-17 (Jorge Aurelio Díaz).
[Pirate partial re-edition: Jan Mukařovský, Función, norma y valor estéticos como hechos sociales. Apostillas Jorge Panesi. Buenos Aires: Cuenco de Plata, 2010, paper 2013.]
Revied in:
Mutatis mutandis: Revista latinoamericana de traducción 9.2 (2016): 469-73 (M. L. Pulido)
Latin America Writes Back: Postmodernity in the Periphery. An Interdisciplinary Cultural Perspective. Hispanic Issues, 28. New York/London: Routlege, 2002. xxviii, 282 pp. Paperback 2014.
Reviewed in:
ConNotas: Revista de crítica y teoría literaria (Hermosillo, Mex.) 1.1. (2003): 183-89 (Rita Plancarte).
Reviews in Anthropology 35.1 (2006): 61-78 (Timothy Smith).
Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda: Tu amante ultrajada no puede ser tu amiga. Cartas de amor/novela epistolar. Madrid: Fundamentos, 2004. 303 pp. Introduction, “La vida: una novela epistolar romántica y más. Hacia la subjetividad romántica femenina,” pp. 9-53. [Edition of correspondence, poetry, and miscellaneous materials.]
Reviewed in:
Feministas unidas (USA) 24.2 (Fall 2004): 23-24 (Elizabeth Horan).
Teoría teatral de la Escuela de Praga: de la fenomenología a la semiótica performativa. Co-edition, Madrid: Fundamentos/Monografías RESAD and Bogotá: Universidad Nacional de Colombia, 2013. 253 pp. [An anthology of classical and postclassical PragueSchool theater theory; introductions; edition and co-translation with Jarmila Jandová, Univ. Nacional de Colombia.] (Czech edition in preparation for 2018.)
SPECIAL ISSUES OF JOURNALS EDITED
Torre de papel (University of Iowa), special issue "Culturas en rotación: Modernidad y Posmodernidad en América Latina" (co-edited with Adriana Méndez-Rodenas), 7.3 (1997). 164 pp.
Escritos (BUAP, Puebla, Mexico), special issue "La posmodernidad en la periferia: América Latina responde. Un enfoque cultural interdisciplinario," 13-14 (1996, published in 1998). 347 pp. Coordination and introduction “¿Quién teme a la posmodernidad?”, pp. 7-18.
[Collection of materials basis for Latin America Writes Back.]
Reviewed in:
La Lámpara de Diógenes (BUAP, Puebla) 2.3 (enero-junio 2001) (Jesús Rodolfo Santander).
Cuadernos del CILHA (Centro Interdisciplinario de la Literatura Hispanoamericana, Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, Mendoza, Argentina). Coordination of dossier “Literatura andina en el siglo XX. Desde el indigenismo hasta nuestros días”. 9.10 (2009). 130 pp.Introduction: “Crónica de una invención cultural”, pp. 12-19.
PUBLICATIONS IN GENERAL LITERARY/CULTURAL THEORY AND SEMIOTICS
"Die Begriffe Fabel und Sujet in der modernen Literaturwissenschaft: Zur Struktur der Erzählstruktur." Poetica (Germany) 9.2 (1977): 141-66.
"Los conceptos de fábula y sujet." In Lingüística y literatura. Roland Barthes et al. Selection and Foreword by Renato Prada Oropeza. Centro de Investigaciones Lingüístico-Literarias, Universidad Veracruzana, Xalapa (Mexico), 1978, pp. 133-47.
"Colloquial Language in Narrative Structure: Toward a Nomothetic Typology of Styles and of Narrative Discourse." Dispositio (USA) 5-6.15-16 (1980-1981): 57-84.
“¿Existe Don Quijote? ¡Vaya putas, qué gustos!” Quimera (Barcelona) 267 (February 2006): 47-52. [On the fate of Don Quixote in modern and postmodern textual theory.]
“Hry typologie a studium verše: český a španělský verš vzápasu o charakter a tvar sylabotónismu” [Typological games and versology: Czech and Spanish verse in the struggle for the nature and form of syllabotonism]. Česká literatura (Prague) 2-3 (2006): 41-58.
[Special issue in memoriam Miroslav Červenka.]
“Habitats of Language/Language Inhabited: From Ostension and Umwelt to the Possible Worlds of Communication and Culture.” In: Johannes Fehr and Petr Kouba, eds. Dynamic Structure: Language as an Open System. Prague: Litteraria Pragensia, 2007, pp. 186-219.
[An interdisciplinary piece on semiotics, emergence of language, anthropological ecology of language, and consequences for theory and language acquisition.]
“Literatura, estética, cultura: encuentros y desencuentros.” In Hernán Vidal, ed. Treinta años de estudios literarios/culturales latinoamericanistas en Estados Unidos. Memorias, testimonios, reflexiones críticas. Biblioteca de América. Universidad de Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh: Instituto Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana, 2008, pp. 295-310. [On the MLA initiative.]
“Futures of the Past: Steps and Mis(sed)steps in Structuralism(s), Semiotics, and Aesthetics from a Metacritical Perspective.” In Veronika Ambros et al eds. Structuralism(s) Today. Ottawa: Legas Press, 2009, pp. 21-37.
“Narativ, mýtus, historie a jiné f(r)ikce: modelování příbĕhu po strukturalismu” [Narrative, myth, history, and other f(r)ictions: Modeling the story after structuralism]. In: Alice Jedličková and Ondřej Sládek (eds.).Vyprávění vkontextu,Prague: ÚČL ČSAV, 2009, pp. 11-41.
“Literární a kulturní teorie pro 21. století: metastrukturalistické modely a genealogie” [Literary and Cultural Theory for the 21st Century: Metastructuralist Models and Genealogies], Ročenka textů zahraničních profesorů/The Annual of Texts by Foreign Guest Professors, 2008, Prague: Filozofická Fakulta UK (Charles University), 2009, pp. 207-20.
“Mapování teorie/teorie mapování: metastrukturalistické modely vs. dĕdictví strukturalismu a poststrukturalismu” [Mapping of theory/Theory of mapping: Metastructuralist models vs. structuralist and poststructuralist legacy]. Svĕt literatury (CharlesUniversity, Prague) 39 (2009): 5-18.
“Things/signs, languages/communication, culture and the costs of consciousness: On bottom-up construction of cultural values and new humanism.” Journal of Arts and Humanities 3.6 (June 2014): 35-47.Czech transl. “Věci/znaky, jazyky/komunikace, kultura a cena lidského vědomí: o konstrukci kulturních hodnot ‘zdola’ a novém humanismu”. Svět literatury 54 (2016): 9-27.
[A transdisciplinary study involving humanities, anthropology, linguistics, and philosophy.]
“Modality ostenze” [Modalities of ostensión in semiotics], Svět literatury (CharlesUniversity, Prague) 55 (2017): 56-62.
PUBLICATIONS IN SLAVIC LITERARY/CULTURAL THEORY
"Guinea Pigs and the Czech Novel ‘Under Padlock’ in the 1970s: From the Modern Absolutism to the Postmodernist Absolute." Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature (USA) 37.1-2 (1983): 20-52 (with Bronislava Volek).
"Originál jako překlad/překlad jako originál (Pražská škola ve španělštině a v češtině)" [Original as translation/translation as original: The Prague School in Spanish and in Czech]. Světová literárněvědná bohemistika. II: Úvahy a studie o české literatuře. Materiály z 1. kongresu světové literárněvědné bohemistiky, Praha 28.-30. června 1995. Ústav pro českou literaturu AV ČR, Prague, 1996, pp. 499-505.
"Jan Mukařovský y la Escuela de Praga (Notas del subsuelo de la posmodernidad)." Hermes criollo (Montevideo, Uruguay) 2 (2002): 45-58.
“Otázka pro ... strukturalismus?” [“What about … structuralism?”], Slovo a smysl (Prague) 3 (2005): 295-97.
“Jan Mukařovský redivivus: Co zůstalo ztradice a dědictví pražské školy?” [J. M. redivivus: What is left from the tradition and heritage of the Prague School?]. In Ondřej Sládek, ed. Český strukturalismus po poststrukturalismu, Brno: Host (2006): 32-43.Translated into English in: Prague Poetics, ed. David Vichnar, Prague: Litteraria Pragensia (was in preparation for 2013).
“Más allá de la dimensión semiótica y estética moderna del arte: La Escuela de Praga frente al autotelismo y la ‘cosificación’ vanguardistas.” Semiosis (Universidad Veracruzana, Mexico) Tercera época 2.3 (2006): 193-227.
“Theatrology an Zich, and Beyond: Notes Towards a Metacritical Repositioning of Theory, Semiotics, Theater, and Aesthetics.” Prague Semiotic Stage Revisited (Brno, 2011), Special Issue of Theatralia/Yorick (MasarykUniversity, Brno) 15.2 (2012): 168-85.
“Teatrologie an Zich: Klasická pražská teorie divadla dnes” [Theatrology an Zich: Classical Prague Theater Theory Today], Divadelní revue (Prague) 24.3 (2013): 15-25.
PUBLICATIONS IN HISPANIC LITERARY/CULTURAL THEORY
"Realismo mágico entre la modernidad y la postmodernidad: Hacia una remodelización cultural y discursiva de la nueva narrativa hispanoamericana." INTI: Revista de literatura hispánica (USA) 31 (1990): 3-20. Reprinted in Daniel Altamiranda and David W. Foster, eds. Spanish American Literature; A Collection of Essays. Hamden, Ct.: Garland Publishing, 1998.
"Realismo mágico en la narrativa hispanoamericana actual: La perspectiva de fin del siglo." In Critical Essays on the Literatures of Spain and Spanish America. Luis T. González-del-Valle and Julio Baena, eds. Society for Spanish and Spanish-American Studies, Boulder, Colorado (USA), 1992, pp. 233-41.
"¿En qué sentido tiene sentido hablar de la posmodernidad en la literatura latinoamericana?" La modernidad revis(it)ada: Literatura y cultura latinoamericanas de los siglos XIX y XX. Inke Gunia et al., eds. Berlin: Verlag Walter Frey, 2000, pp. 455-66.
"El realismo mágico entre la modernidad y la postmodernidad". Cultura de Guatemala (Segunda Epoca) 21.1 (2000): 137-52. [Capítulo reimpreso de Literatura hispanoamericana entre la modernidad y la postmodernidad.]
"Los entramados ideológicos del Testimonio latinoamericano: La Revolución anunciada, el oscuro objeto del deseo, el macondismo posmoderno/poscolonial, Menchú y Stoll." Chasqui (USA) 31.2 (November 2002): 44-74.
“José Martí, ¿fundador de Macondo?” Hermes criollo (Montevideo, Uruguay) 5 (April 2003): 23-32. Reprinted in Trascendencia cultural de la obra de José Martí. Actas del Simposio Internacional. Ed. Anna Housková. Prague: Universidad Carolina, 2003, pp. 15-40. First version in Quimera (Spain) 226 (February 2003): 17-25.
“Beyond Latin Americanism and Other Accidental/Occidental Tourism: Guatemala(ns) In Search Of Cultural Theory, and More.” Universum: Revista de humanidades y ciencias sociales (Univ. Talca, Chile) 20.1 (2005): 189-203. [Written as introduction to the English translation, then in preparation, of Mario Roberto Morales, La articulación de las diferencias, o El síndrome de Maximón. Los discursos literarios y políticos del debate interétnico en Guatemala. Guatemala:FLACSO, 1998; 2nda ed. 2002; 3ª ed. aumentada 2008.] Expanded transl. “Más allá del latinoamericanismo y otros turismos accidentales/occidentales: Guatemala en busca de la teoría cultural, y más.” Hermes criollo (Montevideo, Uruguay) 8 (2005): 93-104 (transl. Roberto Appratto). Revised version in Confluencia (U of Northern Colorado, Greeley) 22.1 (Fall 2006): 2-15.
“Anverso y reverso del laberinto: Octavio Paz, ¿fundador de Macondo?” Memoria del XIX Coloquio de la literatura mexicana e hispanoamericana, ed. Alma Leticia Martínez-Figueroa, Hermosillo: Universidad de Sonora, 2005, pp. 35-49. Revised version “Anverso y reverso del laberinto de la soledad: Octavio Paz y cien años de Macondo.” Cuadernos del CILHA (Centro Interdisciplinario de la Literatura Hispanoamericana, Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, Mendoza, Argentina) 8.9 (2007): 131-43.
“Under the Spell of Magic: U. S. Latin Americanism and its Others.” In Luis Martín-Estudillo et al., eds. Debating Hispanic Studies: Reflections on Our Disciplines,Minneapolis: University of Minnesota, Hispanic Issues On Line 1, 2006, pp. 37-46. Web.
“Promesas y simulacros en el baratillo posmodernista: saber y ser en las encrucijadas de una ‘historia mostrenca’.” In Hernán Vidal, ed. Treinta años de estudios literarios/culturales latinoamericanistas en Estados Unidos. Memorias, testimonios, reflexiones críticas. Biblioteca de América. Universidad de Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh: Instituto Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana, 2008, pp. 129-64.
“From Argirópolis to Macondo: Latin American Intellectuals and the Tasks of Modernization.” Latin American Issues and Challenges.Eds. Lara Naciamento and Gustavo Sousa. New York: Nova Science Publishers, 2009,pp. 49-79. Translated into Czech in an updated version: “Cesta z Argiropole do Maconda: Latinskoamerický intelektuál a úkoly modernizace”, Svět literatury 45 (2012): 5-45.
“Nuestra América /Our America at the Crossroads: Splendors of Prophecy, Misery of History, and Other Mishaps of the Patriotic Utopia (Notes on the Bicentennial Recourse of the Method and on Martí’s Blueprint for Macondo).” In Luis Martín-Estudillo and Nicholas Spadaccini, eds. Hispanic Literatures and the Question of Liberal Education.Minneapolis: University of Minnesota, Hispanic Issues On Line8, 2011, pp. 127-51.Web.
“El camino de Macondo: La utopía entre la identidad cultural y los proyectos de modernización. (Meditaciones del Bicentenario).” In Daniel Nemrava, comp. Disturbios en la tierra sin mal: Violencia política y ficción en América Latina. Buenos Aires: Ejercitar la memoria editores, 2013. Pp. 221-44. Reprinted in updated version in a book on García Márquez (Toluca, Mexico, 2016).
PUBLICATIONS IN EARLY SPANISH AND SPANISH AMERICAN LITERATURE
"Oktosylabus romancí - brána k autochtonnímu španělskému verši: Poznámky k problematice jeho rytmu, typologie a místa ve španělském veršovém systému" [The octosyllable of the Spanish romances as a gateway towards the autochthonous Spanish verse: Notes on its rhythm, typology, and place in the Spanish verse system]. Časopis pro moderní filologii (Prague) 52.3 (1970): 139-56. [Recognized as a pioneering contribution to the theory of Spanish verse from the Russian Formalism/Prague School linguistic and semiotic perspective; see Oldřich Bĕlič, Verso español y verso europeo, Bogotá, 2000, passim.]
"Un soneto de Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz: Detente, sombra de mi bien esquivo." Cuadernos americanos (Mexico) 38.2 (1979): 196-211.
"La señora y la ilustre fregona: Las trampas de comunicación, teología y poder entre Sor Filotea y Sor Juana." In Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz y sus contemporáneos. Margo Glantz, ed. Mexico: Facultad de Filosofía y Letras/Condumex, 1998, pp. 333-57.
"Las tretas de los signos: Teoría y crítica de Sor Juana." In Sor Juan Inés de la Cruz y las vicisitudes de la crítica. José Pascual Buxó, ed. Mexico: UNAM, 1998, pp. 321-40.
"Silogismos con su sangre escritos: Sor Juana, testigo de cargo (1693-1694)." In De palabras, imágenes y símbolos: Homenaje a José Pascual Buxó. Enrique Ballón-Aguirre and Oscar Rivera-Rodas, eds. Mexico: UNAM, 2002, pp. 533-56.
“Un texto en busca de autor y destinatario: Serafina de Cristo.” Simulacros de la fantasía. Nuevas indagaciones sobre arte y literatura virreinales. Homenaje a José Pascual Buxó. Simposio internacional (2002). Mexico: UNAM, 2007: 183-209.
“Trabajo crítico y metáforas barrocas.” Katatay 5.7 (Sept. 2009): 93-94.
“La poesía religiosa de Sor Juana.” Unidad y sentido de la literatura novohispana. Ed. José Pascual Buxó. México: UNAM, 2009, pp. 257-74.
“La Celestina, a pesar de todo: La paga, el corazón de Melibea y también cierto Seleuco. (Las lecturas de la tragicomedia/la comedia de las lecturas y algunos apuntes metodológicos).” Ibero-americana pragensia, XLIII (2009, publ. 2012): 47-73.[A polemical article with the philological tradition in the criticism of La Celestina, 1499.]
“La monja que conquistó Europa: Sor Juana Inés en la cruz de la crítica”. El retorno de las carabelas, special issue of Svět literatury/El mundo de la literatura, Charles University: Prague, 2016. Pp. 23-32.
PUBLICATIONS IN CONTEMPORARY SPANISH/SPANISH AMERICAN LITERATURE
SEPARATE PUBLICATIONS/CHAPTERS IN BOOKS/LONG ARTICLES
"Análisis de las estructuras musicales e interpretación de El acoso de Alejo Carpentier." Philologica pragensia 12.1 (1969): 1-24. Reprinted in: Homenaje a Alejo Carpentier. H. F. Giacoman, ed. New York: Las Américas Publishing Co., 1970, pp. 385-438.