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Professor Portugal has written articles on Mario Vargas Llosa and José María Arguedas and has a forthcoming book on José María Arguedas
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José Alberto Portugal

Associate Professor of Spanish Language & Literature
PepsiCo Professorship
Ph.D., University of Texas
Bachiller en Humanidades, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
Egresado del Programma de Estudios Generales Letras, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú

Professor Portugal’s teaching and research interests include twentieth-century Spanish American Narrative, Indianismo e Indigenismo in Spanish American Literature from the sixteenth through the nineteenth Centuries, and Literature of the Spanish Golden Age. 

He has written articles on Mario Vargas Llosa and José María Arguedas, and will be publishing a book on José María Arguedas.

Recent Courses

Advanced Spanish: Spanish as the Fabric of Verse
Representations of Power in Modern Latin American Novels

Selected Publications

Portugal, J. A. (2002). Mario Vargas Llosa y Miguel Gutierrez, el Amargo Sueno de la Utopia. In C. Monteagudo, & V. Vich (Eds.), Del Viento, el Poder y la Memoria. Materiales para una lectura critica de Miguel Gutierrez. Lima: Fondo Editorial de la Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru.

Portugal, J. A. (2004). Heroes de Nuestro Tiempo. La Formulacion de la Figura del Protagonista en Tres Narraciones de M. Vargas Llosa, A. Bryce y M. Gutierrezz. (Heroes of Our Time. The Formulation of the Protagonist Figure in Three Novels of M. Vargas Llosa, A. Bryce and M. Gutierrez . Revista de Critica Literaria Latinoamericana, 30(59), 229-248.

Portugal, J. A. (2004). Un Largo Adios: Alfredo Bryce Echenique o la Anatomia de una Melancolia Peruana. In C. Ferreira, & I. P. Marquez (Eds.). Lima: Fondo Editorial de la Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru.

Portugal, J. A. (2007). Las novelas de Jose' Maria Arguedas. Una incursion en lo inarticulado. Lima, Peru: Fondo Editorial de la Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru.

Contact Information

New College of Florida
Division of Humanities
COH 104
5800 Bay Shore Road
Sarasota, FL 34243-2197

portugal@ncf.edu
(941) 487-4458

Office Hours

Palmer Building E 122

By appointment

 
 

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