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Susana Hernández Araico
Professor Emerita of Spanish and Latin American Literature
Department of English and Foreign Languages
shernandezar@csupomona.edu
Last Updated: 11-Mar-2008
College of Letters, Arts, & Social Sciences
3801 West Temple AvenueCalifornia State Polytechnic University
Pomona, CA 91768
Tel. (909) 869-3810/3801/3802/3803
FAX (909) 869-4896
ADDITIONAL AFFILIATIONS
Research Associate, UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Research Associate, UCLA Center for 17th and 18th-Century Studies
EDUCATION
Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, 1976
M. A., University of California, Los Angeles, 1970
B.A., Summa Cum Laude, Mount St. Mary's College, 1968 (Los Angeles, Brentwood campus)VISITING PROFESSOR:
UCLA(Spring 2008; Summers 2006, 2005, 2004, 1986)UCSB (Summers 1997-2000)
University of Southern California (Spring 1996)
Middlebury College (Summer 1995)
UC Irvine (Spring 1994)
Simon Fraser University (Summer, 1992)
FIELDS of RESEARCH
I. Spanish Early Modern (Renaissance and Baroque or Golden Age) Literature
Particular emphasis on the reception of theater as a performance of political, economic and aesthetic implications:
- in its own time
- in contemporary productions
PUBLICATIONS on
- Calderón de la Barca (1600-1681)
- Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (1651-1695)
OTHER MAJOR PLAYWRIGHTS :
- Gil Vicente (¿1460-1536?)
- Sánchez de Badajoz (¿1495-1550?)
- Cervantes (1547-1616)
- Lope de Vega (1562-1635)
- Rojas Zorrilla (1607-1645)
- Vélez de Guevara (1579-1644)
- Quevedo (1580-1645)
- Lorenzo de las Llamosas (¿1665-1705?)
II. Latin American Women Writers
ESSAYS PUBLISHED on MAJOR WRITERS:
Syria Poletti (Argentina)
- Sonia Luz Carrillo (Perú)
- Magdalena Harriague (Argentina)
- Magda Portal (Perú)
ANNOTATIONS: 2O Latin American Women Writers
EDITORIAL BOARDS
Bulletin of the Comediantes (Journal on Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Spanish Drama);Gestos ,(Journal of Hispanic Theater, UC Irvine);
Notas, Reseñas iberoamericanas --Literatura, sociedad, historia (Frankfurt, Germany);
Prolija memoria (México, D. F.)
Enciclopedia Calderoniana (Bochum, Germany; www.enciclopediacalderoniana.de
Ibérica (series on Sixteenth-and Seventeenth-Century Hispanic Theater by Peter Lang)
Nuestra Voz (series on Latin American Women Writers by Peter Lang)
PUBLICATIONS
Books:Ironía y tragedia en Calderón. Potomac, Maryland: Scripta Humanistica, 1986.
Pacific Coast Philology, Guest Editor, 27.1-2(1992); coeditor, 25.1-2(1990) and 26.1-2(1991).
Critical Edition of Sor Juana's complete fête Los empeños de una casa, (Introduction and notes in English for the original entire Spanish text, including prologue, interludes and finale; English & Spanish Bibliography; English translation by M. McGaha. Tempe, AZ: Bilingual Press,, 2007.
6 in Women Writers in Translation, an Annotated Bibliography, 1945-1982, eds. Margery Resnick and I. De Courtivron. New York: Garland Publishing, 1984.
82 on 14 contemporary women writers from Argentina , Chile, and Peru in Women Writers of Spanish America, An Annotated Bio-Bibliographical Guide. Editor Diane E. Marting. New York: Greenwood Press, 1987.
28 in Alba de América, Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, Bulletin of the Comediantes, Dispositio, European Romantic Review, Gestos, Hispania, Kentucky Romance Quarterly, Nueva Revista de Filología Hispánica, Revista Crisis, Revista de Estudios Hispánicos, Rocky Mountain Review.
PAPERS PRESENTED
154 at symposia and professional meetings in Canada, France, Germany,Great Britain,Holland,Italy Mexico, Spain, and the U. S.
PROGRAMS AND MEETINGS ORGANIZED AND/OR CHAIRED 100 in Canada, Europe, Mexico and the United States.
MEDIA INTERVIEWS
14 in Argentina, Spain, U. S., and Mexico (1981-2007)LANGUAGES
Bilingual in Spanish and English Advanced Oral Proficiency: Italian and Norwegian
Intermediate Aural Proficiency: Catalan, French, and Portuguese
Advanced Reading Proficiency: Catalan, French, Italian, Norwegian, and Portuguese
COMMUNITY & PUBLIC SERVICE
Presentations, mentorships, committees and/or organizations in the U. S. and Mexico.
DIRECTORY LISTINGS
Directory of American Scholars, National Directory of Latin Americanists, Who's Who in California (1986), California Humanities Project World Cultures Curricular Resource List, International Leaders in Achievement (2nd Edition, 1990); Who's Who Among America's Teachers (5th edition;1998).