Spanish Faculty

Dr. Genaro J. Perez

Professor of Spanish
Ph.D., Tulane, 1976

Genaro J. Pérez has specialized in the contemporary novel, both Peninsular and Latin American, teaching these fields as well as courses in the Mexican novel and the Hispanic novel in the United States. His research interests include the twentieth-century English and American novel in relation to their counterparts in Spanish, as well as the areas of oral literature, Hispanic children's literature, and Spanish detective fiction.

His publications include Formalist Elements in the Novels of Juan Goytisolo; La novelística de J. Leyva; La novela como burla/juego: siete experimentos novelescos de Gonzalo Torrente Ballester; La narrativa de Concha Alós: texto, pretexto y contexto; and Ortodoxia y Heterodoxia de la novela policiaca hispana: Variaciones sobre el género negro; Rabelais, Bajtin y Formalismo en la narrativa de Sergio Pitol; plus more than 100 articles and papers on the foregoing and on other novelists such as Carlos Fuentes, Camilo José Cela, Julio Cortázar, Teresa Pamies, Gustavo Sainz, Juan García Ponce, Rosa Montero, Carmen Riera, and Manuel Puig, as well as studies on García Lorca and Chicano literature.

He is co-editor of Monographic Review/Revista monográfica and was the Book Review Editor of Hispania [1996-2004]. His present work-in-progress is a monograph elucidating the typology of intertextuality in selected post-modern Hispanic writers. He has published poetry (Prosapoemas [1980], Spanish Quarter Notes [2006], and French Quarter Cantos [2010]) and fiction (The Memoirs of John Conde [2000] and French Quarter Tales [2006]).

Courses Commonly Taught

Latin American Literature
Chicano Literature
Contemporary Mexican Narrative
Hispanic Detective Fiction
Post-war Peninsular Narrative
Hispanic Fairytales
The Boom in Latin American Literature

Offices Held

Representative at Large: South Central Modern Language Association (2013-2015).
Executive Council, American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese (2007-2009).
Executive Council of Southwest Council of Latin American Studies (1991-95).
Co-President of Southwest Council of Latin American Studies (1991).
Modern Language Association, Delegate Assembly (1989-91).
Chair, Division of Ethnic Studies in Literature, Modern Language Association of America (1988).
Executive Committee, Division of Ethnic Studies in Literature, Modern Language Association of America (1985-89).

Administrative Experience

Recruiter, Graduate program of Spanish, Texas Tech, 2011-2014.
Graduate Advisor for Spanish, Texas Tech, 2001—2007.
Director/Convener, Division of Spanish and Portuguese, CMLL, TTU, 2001-2005.
Developed and Directed Granada Summer Program—TTU—1997-98.
Chair of Foreign Languages, 1992-95, The University of Texas of the Permian Basin.
Coordinator for Spanish, 1978-1995, The University of Texas of the Permian Basin.

Areas of Research

Contemporary novel, both Peninsular and Latin American, teaching these fields as well as courses in the Mexican novel and the Hispanic novel in the United States, Hispanic Fairytales, and Chicano literature.

Professor Pérez specializes in contemporary narrative, both Peninsular and Latin American, teaching these fields as well as courses in the Mexican novel and the Hispanic novel in the United States, Hispanic Fairytales, and Chicano literature. He is also preparing a monograph on the typology of misogyny and sexism in selected post-modern hard-boiled fiction writers.

Research interests include the twentieth-century English and American novel and their related counterparts in Spanish, in addition to Hispanic Detective fiction, as well as the areas of oral literature, and Hispanic Fairytales.

Selected Publications

Subversión y de(s)construcción de subgéneros en la narrativa de Rosa Montero (2019)
Rabelais, Bajtin y formalismo en la narrativa de Sergio Pitol, 2011.
Formalist Elements in the Novels of Juan Goytisolo
La novelística de J. Leyva
La novela como burla/juego: siete experimentos novelescos de Gonzalo Torrente Ballester
La narrativa de Concha Alós: texto, pretexto y contexto
Ortodoxia y Heterodoxia de la novela policiaca hispana: Variaciones sobre el género negro
More than 150 articles and papers on the foregoing and on other novelists such as Gabriel García Márquez, Carlos Fuentes, Camilo José Cela, Julio Cortázar, Teresa Pamies, Gustavo Sainz, Juan García Ponce, Sergio Pitol, Rosa Montero, Carmen Riera, Manuel Puig, Manuel Vázquez Montalbán, Lucha Corpi, and others, as well as studies on García Lorca and Chicano literature.

Awards and Honors

Barnie E. Rushing, Jr. Faculty Distinguished Research Award (2013)
Texas Tech University President's Faculty Book Award (2012)
Appointed to the State of Texas Textbook Review Panel for Proclamation 2010 (2009)
Who's Who in the South and Southwest (1986-87)
South Central Modern Language Association Grant (1986)
American Philosophical Society Summer Research Grant to Spain (1986)
American Council of Learned Societies Travel Grant to attend the meeting of the Asociación Internacional de Hispanistas in Berlin (1986)