Janet Pérez

JANET PÉREZ
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Prof. Janet Pérez 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 the UNC Department of Romance Languages, 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 in order to become Editor of Hispania, official journal of the American Association of Teachers of Spanish & Portuguese. 

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. 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 Fictionof Cristina Fernández Cubas (ed., w/Kathleen Glenn). In progress:  Spanish Women Poets Today (1969-2000).  Published/in press: 250+ articles and chapters in books include some 100+ studies on women in Hispania, , Revista de Estudios Hispánicos, Journal of Spanish Studies: Twentieth Century, Cuadernos Hispanoamericanos, World Literature Today, Anales de la Narrativa Española Contemporánea, Crítica Hispánica, Anthropos, Gestos, Siglo XX/20^th Century,Hispanic Review, Revista Hispánica Moderna, Revista Monográfica, Antípodas, Confluencia, etc. Besides some  200+ research papers and invited lectures, she has hundreds of entries in  reference works and 200+ reviews.

She received the Texas Tech College of Arts & Sciences Outstanding Research Award five times; the 1993 Presidents Academic Achievement Award  (for Distinguished Teaching, Research & Service), the 1994 Texas Tech University Distinguished Faculty Research Award, among others.