Perez, Janet

Janet Isabel Pérez

Paul Whitfield Horn Professor, Qualia Chair in Spanish

Ph.D., Duke, 1961

Janet Isabel Pérez

janet.perez@ttu.edu

Her books include The Major Themes of Existentialism in the Works of Ortega y Gasset (Chapel Hill: U of NC P); Ana María Matute (New York: Twayne); Miguel Delibes (New York: Twayne); Novelistas femeninas de la postguerra española [ed.] (Madrid: Porrúa); Gonzalo Torrente Ballester (Boston: G.K. Hall); Women Writers of Contemporary Spain (Boston: G.K. Hall); Critical Studies on Gonzalo Torrente Ballester [ed. w/ Stephen Miller]; The Spanish Civil War in Literature [ed. w/ W. Aycock: Texas Tech U P); Dictionary of Literature of the Iberian Peninsula [ed. w/Germán Bleiberg & Maureen Ihrie], 2 vols. (Westport CT: Greenwood Press); Modern & Contemporary Spanish Women Poets (New York: Twayne/Prentice Hall, 1996; on CD-ROM, 1997); Camilo José Cela Revisited (New York: Macmillan/Gale, 2000); Feminist Encyclopedia of Spanish Literature (Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2002), Ed. (w/M. Ihrie), 2 vols.; Mapping the Fiction of Cristina Fernández Cubas (ed., w/Kathleen Glenn). In progress: Spanish Women Poets Today (1969-2000). Published/in press: 250+ articles and chapters in books (including 100+ studies on women) in Hispania, Hispanófila, Romance Notes, Kentucky Romance Quarterly, South Atlantic Bulletin, Revista de Estudios Hispánicos, Journal of Spanish Studies: Twentieth Century, The American Hispanist, Estreno, Hispanic Journal, Cuadernos Hispanoamericanos, World Literature Today, Anales de la Narrativa Española Contemporánea, Crítica Hispánica, Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos, The Denver Quarterly, South Central Review, The Review of Contemporary Fiction, Discurso Literario, Letras Femeninas, Alaluz, ADFL Bulletin, Anthropos, Gestos, Siglo XX/20^th Century, América Indígena, Studies in Short Fiction, Letras Peninsulares, España Contemporánea, Hispanic Review, Catalan Review, Los Ensayistas, INTI, Explicación de Textos Literarios, Revista Hispánica Moderna, Revista Monográfica, Antípodas, Confluencia, Cariber, etc. Besides 200+ conference papers and invited lectures, she has hundreds of entries in reference works and 200+ reviews. Pérez received the Texas Tech College of Arts & Sciences Outstanding Research Award five times; the 1993 President=s Academic Achievement Award (for Distinguished Teaching, Research & Service), the 1994 Texas Tech University Distinguished Faculty Research Award, among others. She is a Charter member of The TTU Teaching Academy, the Fulbright Alumni Association, and Phi Beta Kappa (Duke). Some 60 theses and dissertations have been completed under her direction, with a dozen others in progress.

Publications

Dr. Perez holds the M.A. and Ph.D. in Romance Languages from Duke University, and has taught at Duke University, Trinity College (Catholic University of America), Queens College (City University of New York), and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She was the first woman ever hired full-time in Romance Languages at the University of North Carolina, which had been all-male for over 200 years. At Texas Tech she is Paul Whitfield Horn Professor of Romance Languages and Qualia Chair of Spanish. She served as Associate Dean of the Graduate School (1985-2000), a post which she left to become Editor of Hispania, official journal of the American Association of Teachers of Spanish & Portuguese.

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Honors/Awards

A corresponding member of the Hispanic Society of America since 1988, she was unanimously elected an Honorary Fellow of that Society in 1999. Pérez served on the national Board of Trustees of the Spanish Honorary Sigma Delta Pi (1982-89); the Executive Committee of the Modern Language Association=s Division on 20th Century Spanish Literature (1982-86), as Division President in 1985, and in various other positions. She was Vice President of the Twentieth Century Spanish Society of America (1987-90); 1990-91 co-President of the Southwest Council on Latin American Studies; South Central Modern Language Association Executive Council (1990-93); 1992 President of SCMLA, and Executive Council of AATSP 2001-2009. She served as consultant numerous national and international granting agencies including National Endowment for the Humanities, U.S. Information Agency, the Council for International Exchange of Scholars, the AAUW Educational Foundation, as well as The College Board, Educational Testing Service and dozens of commercial and university presses. Active in numerous professional associations, she has past or present service on forty-plus editorial boards and has edited or co-edited more than 100 volumes in the Twayne World Authors Series.

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