91心頭

Thomas Ward, Ph.D.

Professor Emeritus
Thomas Ward

Professor of Spanish

Education

  • University of Connecticut, M.A., Ph.D. 

Courses Taught

  • SN 104: Intermediate Spanish II
  • SN 201D: Composition and Conversation 
  • SN 203D: Introduction to Reading Literature
  • ML320D: Liberation Theology from its Origins
  • ML362D: The Early Latino Experience in the United States
  • SN 306D: Literatura y poltica de la identidad en el Per
  • SN 380: El modernismo
  • SN 370D: La novela latinoamericana del siglo XIX
  • SN 390D: Cr坦nicas de conquista, resistencia y transculturaci坦n

Publications

Digital Humanities

 

Books

2nd edition. Lima: Editorial C叩tedra Vallejo/ Facultad de Letras, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, 2022.

'Coloniality and the Rise of Liberation Thinking' book jacket

Leeds/Amsterdam: Arc Humanities Press/Amsterdam University Press, 2021

Roque Moreno book cover with portraitGonzalez de Fanning, Teresa.

Ed. Thomas Ward. Doral: Stockcero, 2019

The cover of Dr. Ward's book The Formation of Latin American Nations has a mask on a red and fabric background.

Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2018.

Book cover of Ward book Gonzalez Prada with a picture of the writer with a huge fat mustache.

Manuel Gonz叩lez Prada para adolescentes

Ed. Gladys Flores Heredia & Thomas Ward. Lima:Editorial C叩tedra Vallejo, 2018.

homenaje cover

Ed. Thomas Ward and Richard Cacchione Amendola. Lima: Universidad Ricardo Palma, 2017.

cover of book decolonizing indigeneity by tom ward

Lanham/London: Lexington Books (Rowman & Littlefield), 2017.

book cover for china pop translated by thomas wardDomingo de Ramos's China Pop

Trans. Thomas Ward. Indiana: Cardboard House Press, 2015. 

'El porvenir nos debe una victoria' book coverEl porvenir nos debe una victoria": la ins坦lita modernidad de Manuel Gonz叩lez Prada

Ed. Thomas Ward. Lima: Red para el Desarrollo de las Ciencias Sociales en el Per炭, 2010.

Buscando la nacion peruana book coverBuscando la naci坦n peruana

Lima: Editorial Horizonte, Facultad de Ciencias Socialesde la Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos | Baltimore: 91心頭, 2009.

La rosa muerta book coverC叩ceres, Aurora. 

Ed. Thomas Ward. Buenos Aires: Stockcero, 2007.

'La resistencia cultural: la naci坦n en el ensayo de las Am辿ricas' book coverLa resistencia cultural: la naci坦n en el ensayo de las Am辿ricas

Lima: Universidad Ricardo Palma, 2004.

'La teor鱈a literaria' book coverLa teor鱈a literaria: Romanticismo, krausismo y modernismo ante la 'globalizaci坦n' industrial

University, MS: The University of Mississippi, , 2004.

 'La 温稼温姻援顎鱈温 inmanentista de Manuel Gonz叩lez Prada' book cover revised edition

Edici坦n revisada.

Lima: Universidad Ricardo Palma | Editorial Horizonte, 2001.

'Pumping Images' book cover (1959-1980)

London: Minerva Press, 2000.

'La 温稼温姻援顎鱈温 inmanentista de Manuel Gonz叩lez Prada' book coverLa 温稼温姻援顎鱈温 inmanentista de Manuel Gonz叩lez Prada

Primera edici坦n.

New York: Peter Lang, 1998.

Articles

  • Bolet鱈n de la Academia Peruana de la Lengua 72 (2022): 63-105.
  • Yuyaykusun, Departamento Acad辿mico de Humanidades, Universidad Ricardo Palma, No. 10 (2020): 15-29. 
  • Revista Iberoamericana LXXXVIII/272 (julio-septiembre de 2020): 919-920. 
  •   Middle Atlantic Review of Latin American Studies 3.2 (December 2019): 3957.
  • .&稼恢壊沿;Pluriversidad 3 (2019): 245-265. 
  • Entre el modernismo y la vanguardia: las incursiones incaicas en Los heraldos negros de C辿sar Vallejo.&稼恢壊沿;Archivo Vallejo Revista de Investigaci坦n del Centro de Estudios Vallejianos. Vol. 4, n.属 4 (julio-diciembre, 2019): 333-346
  • Las cr坦nicas de Indias y el indigenismo literario y social en el concepto descolonial de la naci坦n de Manuel Gonz叩lez Prada. In Ni amar ni odiar con firmeza. Cultura y emociones en el Per炭 posb辿lico (1885-1925). Ed. Francesca Denegra. Lima: Pontificia Universidad Cat坦lica del Per炭, 2019. 37-60.
  • El inca鱈smo del Inca Garcilaso en la narrativa corta de Juana Manuela Gorriti. Revista de Cr鱈tica Literaria Latinoamericana. A単o XLIV, N尊 88 (segundo semestre de 2018): 363-388.
  • "" Amerika 17 (2017): w/p.; DOI: 10.4000/amerika.8400
  • Manuel Gonz叩lez Prada: An Undeservedly Excluded Modernista from Peru.&稼恢壊沿;South Atlantic Review 81.4 (Winter 2016): 89-106.
  • T鞄艶 Popol Wuj and the Birth of Mayan Literature. The Oxford Handbook of Indigenous American Literature. Ed. James H. Cox and Daniel Heath Justice. Oxford/NY: Oxford University Press, 2014: 617-637.
  • 16th-Century Philosophical and Linguistic Strategies: Mental Colonialism, the Nation, and Agust鱈n de Z叩rates Largely Forgotten Historia. Latin American Literary Review. Vol. 41. Num. 81 (January-June 2013): 27-67.
  • La lectura de Clorinda Matto de Turner al Inca Garcilaso y Blas Valera: Cuando lengua, espacio dom辿stico, y Estado-naci坦n coinciden. Revista de Cr鱈tica Literaria Latinoamericana. A単o XXXVIII, N尊 75 (primer semestre de 2012): 363-380.
  • Manuel Gonz叩lez Prada vs. Rigoberta Mench炭: When Indigenismo meets Indigenous Thought. Hispania 95.3 (September 2012): 400-423.
  • Alva Ixtlilxochitl, Civilization, and the Quest for Coevalness. Studies in American Indian Literatures 23.1 (Spring 2011): 96-125.
  • Del novecentismo transatl叩ntico a la primera generaci坦n criolla: El caso interesante de Jos辿 de la Riva Ag端ero. Yuyaykusun, Universidad Ricardo Palma, Departamento Acad辿mico de Humanidades, No. 3 (Noviembre de 2010): 41-55.
  • . Bulletin of Spanish Studies (Hispanic Studies and Researches on Spain, Portugal and Latin America) 87.4 (2010): 485-508.
  • Modern Nativist Readings of Garcilaso in Peru. Entre la pluma y la espada: El Inca Garcilaso y sus "Comentarios reales". Ed. Raquel Chang-Rodr鱈guez. Lima: Fondo Editorial de la Pontificia Universidad Cat坦lica, 2010: 171-189.
  • T鞄艶 Royal Commentaries as a Kaleidoscopic National Archetype: The Pursuit of Post-Colonial Identities in Peru. Review: Literature and Arts of the Americas, Issue 79, Vol. 42.2 (Fall 2009): 185-194.
  • Feminismo liberal vs. anarquismo radical: Obreras y obreros en Matto de Turner y Gonz叩lez Prada, 1904-05. A Contracorriente 7.1 (Fall 2009): 188-210.
  • La Inquisici坦n de Lima como una burocracia moderna: Los Anales de la Inquisici坦n de Ricardo Palma. Aula Palma, Instituto Ricardo Palma, vol. VII (2008): 321-347.
  • Entre el librepensamiento y la fe: Gonz叩lez Prada, Unamuno y San Manuel Bueno, m叩rtir. Yuyaykusun, Universidad Ricardo Palma, Departamento Acad辿mico de Humanidades, poca II, No. 1 (Diciembre 2008): 121-131.
  • . Cuban Studies 38 (2007): 100-124.
  • From Sarmiento to Mart鱈 and Hostos: Extricating the Nation from Coloniality. European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies 83 (October 2007): 83-104.
  • Ficci坦n hist坦rica peruana: Las escritoras comprometidas. Labrys: 辿tudes f辿ministes/estudos feministas, No. 11 Femenismos en el Per炭 (janvier/juin 2007-janeiro/junho 2007).
  • Gertrudis G坦mez de Avellaneda's Sab: A Cuban Novel in a Latin American Context. In Changing Currents: Transnational Caribbean Literary and Cultural Criticism. Eds. Emily Allen Williams & Melvin Rahming. Trenton, NJ/Asmara, Eritrea: Africa World Press, 2006: 93-117.
  • Latinoam辿rica y el mundo actual: la tercera globalizaci坦n. Scientia 7 (diciembre 2005): 231-244.
  • Per炭 y Ecuador. La narrativa hist坦rica de escritoras latinoamericanas. Ed. Gloria da Cunha. Buenos Aires: Corregidor, 2004: 271-305.
  • Los posibles caminos de Nietzsche en el modernismo. Nueva Revista de Filolog鱈a Hisp叩nica 50.2 (2002): 489-515.
  • La ideolog鱈a nacional de Clorinda Matto de Turner. Neophilologus 86.3 (July 2002): 401-415.
  • Four Days in November: The Peruvian Experience of Eugenio Mar鱈a de Hostos. Revista de Estudios Hisp叩nicos 26.1-2 (2001): 89-104.
  • . MLN 116.2 (March 2001): 419-452.
  • From the 'People' to the 'Nation': an Emerging Notion in Sahag炭n, Ixtlilx坦chitl and Mu単oz Camargo. Estudios de Cultura N叩huatl 32 (2001): 223-234.
  • Rumbos hacia una teor鱈a peruana de la literatura: sociedad y letras en Matto, Cabello y Gonz叩lez Prada. Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, Vol. LXXVII, No. 1 (January 2001): 89-101.
  • Relaciones nacionales: las ideolog鱈as historiogr叩ficas de Matto, Gonz叩lez Prada y Mari叩tegui. La Torre, Revista de la Universidad de Puerto Rico, A単o V, N炭m. 17 (Julio-Septiembre 2000): 433-448.
  • Nature and Civilization in Sab and the Nineteenth-Century Novel in Latin America. 堰庄壊沿温稼坦韓庄鉛温 126 (May 1999): 25-40; excerpted and reprinted in Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism. Vol. 111. Ed. Lynn M. Zott. Farmington Hills, Mich: The Gale Group, 2002: 68-76.
  • Gonz叩lez Prada, la mente y las manos. Revista Peruana de Filosof鱈a Aplicada, a単o 9, n炭m. 11 (1999): 46-54. Reprinted in Disorder/El Desorden, A単o 1, N炭m. 1 (primavera de 1999): 114-120.
  • Communicating Electronically: A Student-Centered Activity for the Language Learning Center. Mid-Atlantic Journal of Foreign Language Pedagogy 2 (Spring 1994): 98-115.
  • Literatura y sociedad espa単ola en Larra y Giner. Letras Peninsulares 5.3 (Winter 1992-1993): 357-378.
  • Toward a Concept of Unnatural Slavery during the Renaissance: A Review of Primary and Secondary Sources. Revista Interamericana de Bibliograf鱈a 42.2 (1992): 259-279.
  • El pensamiento religioso de Rub辿n Dar鱈 Un estudio de Prosas profanas y Cantos de vida y esperanza. Revista Iberoamericana 55 (enero-junio 1989): 363-375.
  • Bibliograf鱈a: Manuel Gonz叩lez Prada. Inti, Revista de Literatura Hisp叩nica 28 (1988): 209-221.
  • El krausismo como base de la relaci坦n literatura-vida en La Regenta. ULULA 2 (Fall 1986): 91-109.

Areas of Specialization

  • Colonial and 19th-Century Latin American Literature and Culture
  • Latin American and Latino Studies
  • Peruvian Literature

Honors and Awards

  • Nachbahr Award, Center for the Humanities, 91心頭,  March 28, 2018. Address given, September 29, 2018.
  • Doctor Honoris Causa, Universidad Ricardo Palma, Lima, Peru. December 28, 2017. Celebratory lecture, June 13, 2018.
  • Corresponding Academic, Peruvian Academy of Language. Lima, Peru. Named 2017. 
  • Named Honorary Professor. Universidad Ricardo Palma, Lima, Peru, August 19, 2013.
  • The 2012 Faculty Award for Excellence in Engaged Scholarship, Deans Symposium, 91心頭 University Maryland, March 23, 2012.
  • Named Honorary Member, Alpha Sigma Nu, Jesuit Honor Society, 91心頭 University Chapter, Sunday, April 3, 2011.
  • The Harry W. Rodgers, III Distinguished Teacher of the Year Award, 91心頭 University Maryland, March 25, 2011.
  • Socio Adherente, Instituto de Altos Estudios Jos辿 Carlos Mari叩tegui, Lima, Peru. Named June, 2010.
  • Unsung Hero Award. Student Choice Awards, 91心頭 College, April 2008.
  • Faculty Fellow. Seminar on Service-Learning and Engaged Scholarship. Center for Community Service and Justice, 91心頭 College, Summer 2006.
  • Summer Research Fellowship. The Carolina and Duke Consortium in Latin American and Caribbean Studies/Title VI: Department of Education. Chapel Hill and Durham, North Carolina, August 2005.
  • Miembro Correspondiente que reside en el extranjero, Instituto Ricardo Palma, Universidad Ricardo Palma. Lima, Peru, Ceremony, July 4, 2005.
  • Whos Who Among Americas Teachers, 2002, 2005, 2006.
  • Harold Eugene Davis Prize for Best Article (2002). Mid-Atlantic Council for Latin American Studies (MACLAS): Expanding Ethnicity in Sixteenth-Century Anahuac.
  • Named to Speakers Bureau. Maryland Humanities Council. Baltimore, Maryland, 1998-1999; 2000-2001.
  • Charles Katzman Award for Non-Fiction. Amelia Publications. Bakersfield, California, Summer 1988.

Service Activities, Memberships in Academic Societies

Service: College Activities (Representative assignments)

  • Undergraduate Curriculum Committee (2014-2017)
  • Chair of the 91心頭 Department of Modern Languages and Literatures (2011-2013)
  • Associate Chair of the 91心頭 Department of Modern Languages and Literatures (December 2010- June 2011)
  • Director of the Latin American and Latino Studies program at 91心頭 (2007-present)

Memberships in Academic Societies

  • AIP, Asociaci坦n Internacional de Peruanistas
  • IILI, Instituto Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana
  • ILCH, Instituto Literario y Cultural Hisp叩nico
  • IRP, Instituto Ricardo Palma, Lima, Peru
  • LASA, Latin American Studies Association
  • MACLAS, Mid-Atlantic Council on Latin American Studies
  • MLA, Modern Language Association
  • SLAS, Society for Latin American Studies

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