JOSE C. BALLON

Curriculum Vitæ

 Professor of Spanish and Latin American Literature, Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, Ohio, 1982 - present. 

•  Stanford University, Ph.D. in Latin American Literature, 1981.
• University of Texas at El Paso, M.A. in Latin American Literature, 1976.
• Facultad de Teología/Instituto de Humanidades Clásicas, Lima, Perú, B.A., 1971.

BOOKS

• Lecturas norteamericanas de José Martí: Emerson y el socialismo contemporáneo (1880- 1887). México: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 1995
• Autonomía cultural americana: Emerson y Martí. Madrid: Editorial Pliegos, 1986.

TRANSLATIONS ON SEMIOTICS

• "Semiotics in Peru 1980 - 1988," in The Semiotic Web, Thomas A. Sebeok and Jean Umiker-Sebeok (ed.). Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 1990.
• "Semiotics in Peru," in The Semiotic Sphere, Thomas A. Sebeok and Jean Umiker- Sebeok (ed.). New York: Plenum Publishing Co., 1986.

ARTICLE IN A BOOK

• "Emerson y Martí: La técnica del 'mosaico literario' en el discurso biográfico inglés- español," in Pensamientos y versos de José Martí. New York: Senda Nueva Ediciones, 1991 (41-50).

ARTICLES

• "Martí a fin de siglo: la voz marginal de Emerson frente a Europa, in Alba de América: Revista Literaria, vol.14 (July, 1996), nos. 26/27, 181-89.
• Co-authored: "Comparative American Ethnoliterature: The 'Challenge' Motif," in Poetics Today, International Journal for Theory and Analysis of Literature and Communication,vol. 16, no.1 (Spring, 1995), 30 - 51.
• "Martí en Estados Unidos: reconstruyendo el rostro de Emerson," in Anthropos: Revista de documentación científica de la cultura, (Barcelona, Nov.- Dec.,1995), no.169, 86-90.
• "Martí y el socialismo contemporáneo," in Alba de América: Revista Literaria, vol.13 (July, 1995), nos. 24/25, 309-316.
• "Martí y el Socialismo contemporáneo de John Rae," in Anuario del Centro de Estudios Martianos, (La Habana, 1993), no.16, 50-63.
• "José Martí en 1882: su proceso de poetización del discurso inglés," in Anuario del Centro de Estudios Martianos, (La Habana,1990), no.13, 266-280.
• "'Mi caballero' de José Martí," in Vórtice, vol. 2, nos.2/3, 1979.

FORTHCOMING PUBLICATION

The Centro de Estudios Martianos in Havana, Cuba, selected me to prepare the critical edition of the writings of José Martí (1853-1895) on Ralph Waldo Emerson. Obras Completas de José Martí, Edición Crítica, the most comprehensive edition to date, will consist of approximately forty volumes, and is being prepared by an international group of specialists.

•  "Martí y el Socialismo contemporáneo de John Rae." Modern Language Association Convention, Chicago, December 27-30, 1995.
• "Martí y el socialismo contemporáneo." XI Simposio Internacional de Literatura: Modernismo-Modernidad-Posmodernismo, Montevideo, Uruguay, August 9-14, 1993.
• "Martí y el socialismo contemporáneo." XVII International Congress, Latin American Studies Association, Los Angeles, California, September 24-27, 1992.
• "Martí y El socialismo contemporáneo." Simposio Internacional "José Martí, Hombre Universal," Havana, Cuba, April 7-10, 1992.
• "Mario Vargas Llosa." Chaired the session held at The Twentieth-Century Literature Conference, University of Louisville, Kentucky, February, 1994.
• "Hispanic Poetry, Obras Creativas II." Chaired the session held at The Twentieth-Century Literature Conference, University of Louisville, Kentucky, February, 1993.
• "Revisionism and Intertextuality in Hispanic Prose." Chaired the session held at The Twentieth-Century Literature Conference, University of Louisville, Kentucky, February,1992.
• "Crossing Ideas: Magritte-Borges, Hemingway-Cabrera Infante, Freud-Lezama Lima." Chaired the session held at the Twentieth Century Literature Conference, University of Louisville, Kentucky, February 1991.
• "Borges: Three Genres." Chaired the session held at the Twentieth-Century Literature Conference, University of Louisville, Kentucky, February 1990.
• "Visión e inscripción en Vista del amanecer en el trópico de Guillermo Cabrera Infante." Mid-America Conference on Hispanic Literature, University of Colorado, Boulder, October 1990.
• "Nación y mundo: el manejo de la categoría espacial en las letras cubanas." Mid-America Conference on Hispanic Literature, University of Kansas, Lawrence, November 1989.
• "José Martí en 1882: su proceso de poetización del discurso inglés." Simposio Internacional José Martí, La Habana, Cuba, September 1989.
• "Vargas Llosa y Arguedas: ficción y subversión en la prosa peruana contemporánea." Mid-America Conference on Hispanic Literature, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, October 1988.
• "Emerson y Martí: La técnica del 'mosaico literario' en el discurso biográfico inglés-español." Mid-America Conference on Hispanic Literature, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, October 1987.
• "Silencio y voz del Perú: el caso de José María Arguedas." Great Lakes Colleges Association: Latin America Conference, Hope College, Holland, Michigan, April 1986.
• "La enseñanza de lengua y literatura a través de constelaciones y eventos semánticos." 68th Annual Meeting of the AATSP, Madrid, Spain, August 1986.
• "The Quest for Cultural Autonomy in Latin America: José Martí." Great Lakes Colleges Association: Latin America Conference, Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio, February 1985.

•  Participated, along with a group of colleagues from Denison, Kenyon, Wooster, Oberlin and OhioWesleyan, in a project which obtained a Mellon Grant for the Ohio5 Colleges Consortium for Multimedia Technology in Language Teaching ($750,000). This group has also prepared a companion proposal for the Culpeper Foundation to fund multimedia laboratories for the language departments of four of the colleges ($250,000).

• Selected in 1990 to be a member of a Cuban/U.S research group under the auspices of the Latin American Studies Association and funded by the Ford Foundation to develop the project "José Martí in the USA". The group was a part of the Task Force for Scholarly Relations with Cuba and brought together four specialists on José Martí residing in the USA (Berkeley, University of Illinois, Purdue, Ohio Wesleyan) and four from the Centro de Estudios Martianos (Havana, Cuba). The group has met in Washington, Havana and Los Angeles. The eight studies prepared will be published in book form by the Centro de Estudios Martianos in the near future.

 Professor, Ohio Wesleyan University: 1994 - present

Associate Professor, Ohio Wesleyan University: 1988 - 1994

Assistant Professor, Ohio Wesleyan University: 1982 - 1988

Visiting Lecturer, University of California at Santa Cruz : 1980 - 1982

• Site-Director of the Great Lakes Colleges Association Borders Program in El Paso/Ciudad Juárez, Fall 1997.
• Director of the Ohio Wesleyan University Summer School Program in Cuernavaca, México. From its foundation in 1986 to 1995.
• Chair of the Cross Cultural Programs Commitee of Ohio Wesleyan University (1990-1991). Member from 1986 to 1993.
• Evaluator of the Latin American Studies Program of the Great Lakes Colleges Association in Bogotá, Colombia, in 1986.

•  Modern Language Association of America
• Latin American Studies Association
• Centro de Estudios Martianos, La Habana, Cuba
• Instituto Literario Cultural Hispánico

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