Alberto Acereda
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Alberto Acereda is a Professor of Latin American literature and culture and the Director of the Division of Spanish and Portuguese at the "School of International Letters and Cultures" at Arizona State University
, (United States
), where he also served as Director of Graduate Studies. He is also member of the North American Academy of the Spanish Language ("Academia Norteamericana de la Lengua Española"), a branch of the Real Academia Española
and the author of numerous articles and op-eds in several European and American newspapers.
(La Rioja, Spain) in 1965. He studied at the La Salle School, in Tarragona
, Spain. He graduated in Hispanic Philology at the University of Barcelona
. He obtained a Masters in Spanish Literature
and a doctorate in Spanish and Latin American Literature
(University of Georgia
, USA).
(North American Academy of the Spanish Language), a branch of the Royal Spanish Academy committee. He has made important scholarly contributions to Hispanic literary modernism and has done extensive research on the end of the 19th century Hispanic
. In this area, Acereda has studied the figure of the Nicaraguan poet Ruben Dario
, writing some scholarlyl books such as Ruben Dario and the Poetics of Despair and Ruben Dario
, "poeta trágico". He has also coordinated and compiled several papers on this modernist author, such as his work The Other Centennial (El otro centenario): Rubén Darío y “Cantos de vida y esperanza” (Rubén Darío and "Songs of Life and Hope"), published in 2005 or "Homenage a Ruben Dario
." He also wrote two volumes of English translations of the poetry of Rubén Darío, prepared with U.S. researcher Professor Will Derusha: Songs of Life and Hope. Songs of life and hope. Rubén Darío, and Selected Poems of Rubén Darío. A Bilingual Anthology. In 2005 he received the "International Rubén Darío Research Award" from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Nicaragua and he was also honored with the "Distinguished Research Recognition" by the "Nicaraguan Institute of Hispanic Culture" at the Embassy of Spain in Nicaragua
, and by the “Nicaraguan Royal Academy of the Spanish Language”.
). His most recent books include: El antimodernismo. Debates transatlánticos en el fin de siglo (2011); Modernism, Rubén Darío and the Poetics of Despair (2004); La Marquesa de Fuerte-Híjar. Una dramaturga de la Ilustración. (2000). He is also the author of six book editions related to modernista authors that appeared in Hiperión, Visor, Sudamericana and other important publishers. He is also the author of two book translations of Darío´s poetry (Duke UP and Bucknell UP), and four edited monographs on Modernism and Dario.
He has published over eighty scholarly articles in refereed journals such as Insula, Revista de Literatura (CSIC), Revista de Filología Románica, Romance Notes, Bulletin of Spanish Studies, Romance Quarterly, Hispanófila, Cuadernos Americanos, Hispania, Anales de Literatura Hispanoamericana, Hispanic Journal, Hispanófila, Dieciocho… He has authored multiple book reviews, several book chapters and encyclopedia entries. Acereda serves on the editorial board of several cholarly journals and is the editor of “Journal of Hispanic Modernism” and its literary review "Magazine Modernista". He has evaluated book manuscripts for university presses at ivy league institutions and sits on several editorial boards. He has conducted funded research in Nicaragua, Spain and England
, and has been an invited honorary program director for the Universidad Internacional Menéndez Pelayo in Santander (Spain) (2008).
Apart from his profession and his university and literary research and teaching, Alberto Acereda is also General Editor of two magazines dedicated to the fin de siecle Transatlantic Modernism: the digital magazine "Magazine Modernista" and "Journal of Hispanic Modernism", review of research on Modernism
. Some of his publications focus on textual representation of social and political issues, human rights, and ideology. His current research concerns the intersection of literature, journalism and politics and the social space in Modern Latin America and Spain. His broad research interests are in literary studies and comparative representations of spirituality and the politics of text within the Hispanic world. His research uses a strong philological and theoretical background to expand his literary and cultural analysis of texts as a product of humanistic, anthropological and social constructs. He has done extensive research on the connections of literature and social politics in the Hispanic world. Acereda has written extensively on Latin American and Spanish poetics, its connections to social issues such as human rights and he has held teaching appointments in Spain and the United States.
Arizona State University
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, (United States
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), where he also served as Director of Graduate Studies. He is also member of the North American Academy of the Spanish Language ("Academia Norteamericana de la Lengua Española"), a branch of the Real Academia Española
Real Academia Española
The Royal Spanish Academy is the official royal institution responsible for regulating the Spanish language. It is based in Madrid, Spain, but is affiliated with national language academies in twenty-one other hispanophone nations through the Association of Spanish Language Academies...
and the author of numerous articles and op-eds in several European and American newspapers.
Early life
Alberto Acereda was born in CalahorraCalahorra
Calahorra, , La Rioja, Spain is a municipality in the comarca of Rioja Baja, near the border with Navarre on the right bank of the Ebro. During ancient Roman times, Calahorra was a municipium known as Calagurris.-Location:...
(La Rioja, Spain) in 1965. He studied at the La Salle School, in Tarragona
Tarragona
Tarragona is a city located in the south of Catalonia on the north-east of Spain, by the Mediterranean. It is the capital of the Spanish province of the same name and the capital of the Catalan comarca Tarragonès. In the medieval and modern times it was the capital of the Vegueria of Tarragona...
, Spain. He graduated in Hispanic Philology at the University of Barcelona
University of Barcelona
The University of Barcelona is a public university located in the city of Barcelona, Catalonia in Spain. It is a member of the Coimbra Group, LERU, European University Association, Mediterranean Universities Union, International Research Universities Network and Vives Network...
. He obtained a Masters in Spanish Literature
Spanish literature
Spanish literature generally refers to literature written in the Spanish language within the territory that presently constitutes the state of Spain...
and a doctorate in Spanish and Latin American Literature
Latin American literature
Latin American literature consists of the oral and written literature of Latin America in several languages, particularly in Spanish, Portuguese, and indigenous languages of the Americas. It rose to particular prominence globally during the second half of the 20th century, largely due to the...
(University of Georgia
University of Georgia
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, USA).
Career as a University Professor
He is a professor of Spanish and Latin American Literatures (with particular emphasis on the fin-de-siécle, modernismo and modernity within transatlantic literary and cultural studies), former Director of Graduate Studies in the "School of International Letters and Cultures" at Arizona State University (USA), where he is now the Head of the Division of Spanish and Portuguese (2007-2010). He Was named to Dean's Faculty Fellow in 2008. He is also a faculty affiliate in the School of Politics and Global Studies, the Program of Jewish Studies and he is also the Director and Founder of the ASU Study Abroad Program at the University of Alicante (Spain).Studies on Hispanic Modernism and Rubén Dario
He is also as member of the Academia Norteamericana de la Lengua EspañolaAcademia Norteamericana de la Lengua Española
The North American Academy of the Spanish Language is an institution made up of prominent Hispanicists, including writers, poets, professors, educators and experts in the language itself, whose mission it is to support and promote the study and correct usage of Spanish in the United States,...
(North American Academy of the Spanish Language), a branch of the Royal Spanish Academy committee. He has made important scholarly contributions to Hispanic literary modernism and has done extensive research on the end of the 19th century Hispanic
Hispanic
Hispanic is a term that originally denoted a relationship to Hispania, which is to say the Iberian Peninsula: Andorra, Gibraltar, Portugal and Spain. During the Modern Era, Hispanic sometimes takes on a more limited meaning, particularly in the United States, where the term means a person of ...
. In this area, Acereda has studied the figure of the Nicaraguan poet Ruben Dario
Rubén Darío
Félix Rubén García Sarmiento , known as Rubén Darío, was a Nicaraguan poet who initiated the Spanish-American literary movement known as modernismo that flourished at the end of the 19th century...
, writing some scholarlyl books such as Ruben Dario and the Poetics of Despair and Ruben Dario
Rubén Darío
Félix Rubén García Sarmiento , known as Rubén Darío, was a Nicaraguan poet who initiated the Spanish-American literary movement known as modernismo that flourished at the end of the 19th century...
, "poeta trágico". He has also coordinated and compiled several papers on this modernist author, such as his work The Other Centennial (El otro centenario): Rubén Darío y “Cantos de vida y esperanza” (Rubén Darío and "Songs of Life and Hope"), published in 2005 or "Homenage a Ruben Dario
Rubén Darío
Félix Rubén García Sarmiento , known as Rubén Darío, was a Nicaraguan poet who initiated the Spanish-American literary movement known as modernismo that flourished at the end of the 19th century...
." He also wrote two volumes of English translations of the poetry of Rubén Darío, prepared with U.S. researcher Professor Will Derusha: Songs of Life and Hope. Songs of life and hope. Rubén Darío, and Selected Poems of Rubén Darío. A Bilingual Anthology. In 2005 he received the "International Rubén Darío Research Award" from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Nicaragua and he was also honored with the "Distinguished Research Recognition" by the "Nicaraguan Institute of Hispanic Culture" at the Embassy of Spain in Nicaragua
Nicaragua
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, and by the “Nicaraguan Royal Academy of the Spanish Language”.
Other Areas of Literature
In other areas of literature, Alberto Acereda has published extensively and his research has appeared in different research journals around the world. He is also the author of two books on other areas of Hispanic literary historiography: The Marquesa de Fuerte-Hijar. A playwright of the Enlightenment (and The Poetic Lnguage of Miguel HernándezMiguel Hernández
Miguel Hernández Gilabert was a 20th century Spanish poet and playwright.-Biography:Hernández was born in Orihuela, in the Valencian Community, to a poor family and received little formal education; he published his first book of poetry at 23, and gained considerable fame before his death...
). His most recent books include: El antimodernismo. Debates transatlánticos en el fin de siglo (2011); Modernism, Rubén Darío and the Poetics of Despair (2004); La Marquesa de Fuerte-Híjar. Una dramaturga de la Ilustración. (2000). He is also the author of six book editions related to modernista authors that appeared in Hiperión, Visor, Sudamericana and other important publishers. He is also the author of two book translations of Darío´s poetry (Duke UP and Bucknell UP), and four edited monographs on Modernism and Dario.
He has published over eighty scholarly articles in refereed journals such as Insula, Revista de Literatura (CSIC), Revista de Filología Románica, Romance Notes, Bulletin of Spanish Studies, Romance Quarterly, Hispanófila, Cuadernos Americanos, Hispania, Anales de Literatura Hispanoamericana, Hispanic Journal, Hispanófila, Dieciocho… He has authored multiple book reviews, several book chapters and encyclopedia entries. Acereda serves on the editorial board of several cholarly journals and is the editor of “Journal of Hispanic Modernism” and its literary review "Magazine Modernista". He has evaluated book manuscripts for university presses at ivy league institutions and sits on several editorial boards. He has conducted funded research in Nicaragua, Spain and England
England
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, and has been an invited honorary program director for the Universidad Internacional Menéndez Pelayo in Santander (Spain) (2008).
Apart from his profession and his university and literary research and teaching, Alberto Acereda is also General Editor of two magazines dedicated to the fin de siecle Transatlantic Modernism: the digital magazine "Magazine Modernista" and "Journal of Hispanic Modernism", review of research on Modernism
Modernism
Modernism, in its broadest definition, is modern thought, character, or practice. More specifically, the term describes the modernist movement, its set of cultural tendencies and array of associated cultural movements, originally arising from wide-scale and far-reaching changes to Western society...
. Some of his publications focus on textual representation of social and political issues, human rights, and ideology. His current research concerns the intersection of literature, journalism and politics and the social space in Modern Latin America and Spain. His broad research interests are in literary studies and comparative representations of spirituality and the politics of text within the Hispanic world. His research uses a strong philological and theoretical background to expand his literary and cultural analysis of texts as a product of humanistic, anthropological and social constructs. He has done extensive research on the connections of literature and social politics in the Hispanic world. Acereda has written extensively on Latin American and Spanish poetics, its connections to social issues such as human rights and he has held teaching appointments in Spain and the United States.
Books and Editions Published
- Modernism, Rubén Darío and the Poetics of Despair
- Rubén Darío: Poeta trágico. Una nueva visión (Ruben Dario: tragic poet. A new vision)
- El Modernismo poético. Estudio crítico y antología temática (Poetic Modernism. Critical study and thematic anthology)
- Poemas filosóficos de Rubén Darío (Philosophical poems of Rubén Darío)
- una sed de ilusiones infinita (An endless thirst for dreams)
- Poesía erótica de Rubén Darío (Erotic poetry of Ruben Dario)
- Poesía selecta de Rubén Darío (Poetry of Rubén Darío selected)
- Antología poética de Rubén Darío (Anthology poetry of Ruben Dario)
- Dossier Rubén Darío
- Homenaje a Rubén Darío (Tribute to Ruben Dario)
- El otro centenario: Rubén Darío y “Cantos de vida y esperanza” (The other anniversary: Rubén Darío and "Songs of Life and Hope")
- Songs of Life and Hope. Cantos de vida y esperanza. Rubén Darío
- Selected Poems of Rubén Darío. A Bilingual Anthology
- La Marquesa de Fuerte-Híjar. Una dramaturga de la Ilustración (The Marquesa de Fuerte-Hijar. A playwright of the Enlightenment)
- El lenguaje poético de Miguel Hernández. El rayo que no cesa (The poetic language of Miguel Hernandez. The ray that does not stop).
External links
- http://www.albertoacereda.net
- http://www.academia.edu/AlbertoAcereda
- http://www.magazinemodernista.com
- http://www.modernismodigital.org