Department of Foreign Languages Faculty

spain

Dr. Joaquin Rodriguez Suro

Webster Hall, Room 320B
417-625-9580
E Mail - suro-j@mssu.edu

 

Spring 2008 Office Hours:

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09:30-10:30

01:30-03:00

01:30-03:00

03:00-05:00 APT.

Dr. Joaquin Rodriguez Suro teaches Spanish. He received a B.A. in the humanities at the Universidad de Puerto Rico. After that he completed a M.A. at the New York University Graduate Center in Madrid, then a Ph.D. at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, both in Spanish Peninsular and Latin American literature and culture. He received a second Ph.D. from Vanderbilt University in Brazilian literature and culture. He taught at two Puerto Rican universities as well as at the Pontif cia Universidade Cat lica do Rio Grande do Sul in Brazil, where he taught courses in Latin American culture and history for three years. He has taught at many other places, including the University of Notre Dame, Syracuse University, the University of Nebraska, the University of Vermont, and the College of Charleston. He has published a book in Brazil and is working on several books on Latin American literature and culture as well as on a book on Don Quijote. His main interests are in the relationship between literature, history, and philosophy from a cross-cultural approach.

 

Courses Taught At MSSU:
Span 101 Beginning Spanish I
Span 102 Beginning Spanish II
Span 203 Intermediate Spanish I
Span 204 Intermediate Spanish II
Span 300 Spanish Comp & Syntax
Span 326 Penninsular Lit Survey
Span 340 Latin American Cinema

Research Interests:
Don Quijote and Platonism
The Religious and Philosophical Ideas of Carlos Fuentes
Philosophy and History in Jorge Luis Borges

Professional Memberships:
American Association of University Professors
Modern Language Association
American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese

Honors/Awards/Recognition
Plaque given by Congressman Roy Blunt in recognition of translation services for his Newsletter in Spanish, March, 2003.

Publications & Presentations

Books and Articles

  • "Feudalismo y se orialismo en la Am rica espa ola colonial." Estudos Iberoamericanos, Porto Alegre, July 1978. (international)
  • "Literatura y pol tica en la novela de Carlos Fuentes." Letras de Hoje, Porto Alegre, December, 1978. (international)
  • "Religi n e historia en Todos los gatos son pardos,de Carlos Fuentes." Veritas, Porto Alegre, July , 1979. (international)
  • "La religi n y el amor en La regi n m s transparente, de Carlos Fuentes." Veritas, Porto Alegre, September, 1979. (international)
  • "La enajenaci n urbana en Zona sagrada."  Qu  pasa? Syracuse University, Spring, 1986. (regional)
  • "Crist bal nonato y la invenci n de la realidad." Chicanorique o Studies (Chiric ).Indiana University, Spring, 1988. (regional)
  • "Delirios mon rquicos." El Mundo (San Juan), October 15, 1975. (regional)
  • "El presidente Carter en Brasil." El Mundo (San Juan), April 12, 1979.(regional)
  • " Fue Romero fascista?" El Nuevo D a (San Juan), November 24, 1984.(regional)
  • "Errores de juventud." El Nuevo D a (San Juan), July 4, 1985.(regional)
  • "La huella de Am rico Castro en Terra nostra, " collaboration in Am rico Castro: The impact of His Thought. Essays to Mark the Centenary of His Birth. Ronald E. Surtz et al, editors. Madison: The Hispanic Seminary of Medieval Studies, 1988, pp 259-265.
  • " rico Ver ssimo: hist ria e literatura." Porto Alegre: Livraria Universit ria D.C. Luzzatto, 1985.
  • Presentations
  •  Erico Ver ssimo y Clarissa.   Presentation at a literary conference at the Queens College of CUNY, May, 1985.
  •  A Rep blica Velha e a Revolu  o de 30 em Caminhos Cruzados.  Presentation at a literary conference at Tulane University, November, 1985.
  •  A aliena  o em Caminhos Cruzados.  Presentation at a literary conference at the University of Kansas, Lawrence., October, 1985.
  •  O existencialismo em Noite de Erico Ver ssimo.  Presentation at a literary conference at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, September, 1986.
  •  O fascismo em Caminhos Cruzados.  Presentation at a literary conference at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, November, 1988.
  •  El derecho natural y la controversia ideol gica en la conquista espa ola de Am rica.   Presentation at a literary conference at Louisiana State University, February, 1992.
  •  Existencialismo y marxismo en La muerte de Artemio Cruz.  Presentation at a literary conference at the University of Louisville, February, 1993.
  •  Liberalismo y democracia en Todos los gatos son pardos.  Presentation at a literary conference at the University of Louisville, February, 1995.
  •  Cambio de piel y la l gica polivalente.  Presentation at a literary conference at the University of Kentucky, April, 1995.
  •  La corrupci n y la justicia del rey en Las novelas ejemplares de Cervantes.  Presentation at a literary conference at the University of Kentucky, April, 1995.
  •  Algumas carater sticas religiosas e hist ricas dos Estados Unidos.  Lecture given at the Grupo de Cultura e Arte Popular, in Porto Alegre, Brazil, July, 1995.
  •  Carlos Fuentes y Terra Nostra.  Presentation at a literary conference at the University of Louisville, February, 2000.

 

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