Department of Humanities

TAMU Regents Professor of Spanish American Literature.
Coordinator of the Creative Writing Minor (English/Spanish)

In 2018 Dr. Cardona-López was named Regent Professor by the Texas A&M University System Board of Regents. In 2015 he received the Laurel Trilce de Oro award, Santiago de Chuco (Perú). In 2005 and 2013, he was recognized as Scholar of the year by the College of Arts and Sciences. In conjunction with scholars from Sorbonne Université (Paris) and Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (Mexico City), he has participated in developing projects to study the nouvelle or short novel as an autonomous and specific literary form. From 2003 to 2011, he was an invited faculty for the Summer Spanish School, Middlebury College. He is a Contributing Editor for the Handbook of Latin American Studies (Library of Congress). Some of his articles, essays, and short stories have been translated into English, Portuguese, and Romanian. Selections of his fiction work are included in several anthologies and book texts published abroad and in the USA.

Education: Ph.D. in Spanish from the University of Kentucky; MA in Spanish from the University of Louisville; BA in Agronomical Engineering from Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Palmira.

Teaching: 20th Century and Contemporary Spanish American Literature, and Creative Writing.

Research interest: Spanish American narrative (emphasis on short novel or nouvelle) and poetry.

Recent Publications

Articles:

“The Modern Novella or Nouvelle beyond the Short Story and the Novel.” Theory in Action 14:4 (2021): 77-90.

Participant as a literary critic in a poll on the Short Novel (invited). La novela corta en el mundo hispánico desde 1940: problemas y estrategias. Monographic Issue coordinated by María Carmen Pujante Segura INSULA 882 (2020): 42.

“Estructuras y enunciación en la novela corta moderna.” Lejana. Revista crítica de narrativa breve. 13 (2020): 109-119.

“La violencia en Pensamientos de guerra de Orlando Mejía Rivera, la palabra que libera.” Colindancias. Revista de la Red de Hispanistas de Europa Central. 11 (2020): 171-182.

“De casa y cuerpo tomados: entre caminos de la evolución del pensamiento de Julio Cortázar.” Colloquia. Volumes collectifs en ligne. Eds. M. Carmen Domínguez Gutiérrez, Edivaldo González Ramírez, Sofía Mateos Gómez. Séminaire Amérique Latine (CRIMIC-Sorbonne Université), 2020, 201-211.

“Los cachorros (1967) by Mario Vargas Llosa as a Modern Nouvelle or Short Novel: Its Discourse and the Theme of Identity.” Theory in Action 12:4 (2019): 37-49.

“Los adioses (1954) de Juan Carlos Onetti: procedimientos para alcanzar la sugerencia y el énfasis en el significado como nouvelle”, Romance Quarterly, 64:2 (2017): 99-106.

“La novela corta moderna hispanoamericana como tema de un seminario interuniversitario.” Les Ateliers du SAL (Séminaire Amérique Latine), Sorbonne Université 9 (2016): 11-19.

“César Vallejo: para una educación en nuestras vidas.” Espergesia 2.1 (August-December 2015): 74-82. [released in 2016]

“Espacio, personaje y significado: La Llorona en La Señora de la Fuente (1996), de Luis Arturo Ramos.” Revista de Literatura Mexicana Contemporánea 64 (2015): 51-57.

Book Reviews:

Fabla salvaje. César Vallejo. Lima: Universidad Ricardo Palma. Edición de César Ferreira. 2020. Latin American Literature Today, 19 (2021).
https://latinamericanliteraturetoday.org/es/reseñas/fabla-salvaje-cesar-vallejo-2/

Publications as Fiction Writer (past five years)

Book:

Do outro lado do acaso (collection of short stories), translated into Portuguese by Kamilla Pacheco and Leonardo Freitas de Souza Martins, São Paulo: Lumme Editor, 2018. ISBN 978-858234-259-6.

Short Stories:

“Eugenia and Adolfo,” “Widow who Goes to Purchase a Man” and “Skin of an Ant,” translated into English by Amy Olen. Latin American Literature Today, 18 (2021). https://latinamericanliteraturetoday.org/es/2021/05/three-microfictions-jose-cardona-lopez/

“Eugenia y Adolfo,” “Viuda que va a comprar un hombre” y “Piel de hormiga.” Latin American Literature Today, 18 (2021).
https://latinamericanliteraturetoday.org/es/2021/05/three-microfictions-jose-cardona-lopez/

“Regalos de cumpleaños.” Cronopio 91 (2020).
https://revistacronopio.com/regalos-de-cumpleanos-jose-cardona-lopez/

“Văduva care se duce să-și cumpere un bărbat,” “Candidatul,” and “Stea cu sărut.” translated into Romanian and presented by Rodica Grigore, Poesis Internaţional 1.17 (2016): 3337.

Scripts:

CaliCorona (short-movie, 8:49 min). The night in the city of Cali (Colombia) during the days of the pandemic (Covid-19). Directed by the independent filmmaker Gerardo Otero. January 27, 2021. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmqsBw2a5Yc

Anteojos de pasión (soap opera), pen-name: Félix Ramón Bravo Portocarrero. Tribute to the soap opera tradition in Spanish American culture. Acting reading, Spanish Club Siglo XXI, April 17, 2018. Recorded as a homage to the world and culture of the Spanish America Radio Drama, a production of the Spanish Club “Siglo XXI.” Broadcasted in Stereo 91, Laredo & Nuevo Laredo, April-June, 2017.