Director of the Program (Director del Programa)

Dr. Juan Armando Rojas, Assistant Professor of Modern Foreign Languages Phone: (740) 368-3694 • E-mail: jarojas@owu.edu

Born in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, México. During 2002-2004 he was the Andrew W. Mellon Fellow and Visiting Assistant Professor at Amherst College, Massachusetts. He has taught seminars at the Universidad Autónoma Benito Juárez de Oaxaca, México and during the Summer of 2002 Dr. Rojas completed his Ph.D. at the University of Arizona. He has a primary area of specialization in Latin American Literature and secondary areas in Literary theory, Colonial Literature and Peninsular Literature of the XIXth and XXth Centuries. Presently his main research and personal interests are Contemporary Mexican Poetry and Creative Writing. He co-edited the anthology Canto a una ciudad en el desierto (Editorial Cuadrilla de la Langosta, México, 2004) and as a poet he has published Río vertebral (Chihuahua UP, 2002) and Lluvia de lunas (Fondo Editorial Tierra Adentro, 1999). Juan Armando’s essays, articles, poems and short stories appear in many literary magazines, reviews and anthologies in Mexico, the United States and Spain.

Previous Directors of the Salamanca Program

Dr. Julián Arribas
Dr. Donald E. Lenfest
Dr. Sandra N. Harper
Dr. Conrad A. Kent