John Eugene Englekirk
John Eugene Englekirk (born September 24, 1905 in New York , † September 30, 1983 in Los Angeles ) was an American Romanist , Hispanic and Lusitanist .
life and work
Englekirk studied at Bard College (formerly St. Stephen's) and Northwestern University . He received his doctorate in 1934 from Columbia University under Federico de Onís with the work Edgar Allan Poe in Hispanic Literature (New York 1934, 1975). Englekirk taught from 1928 to 1932 and from 1934 to 1939 at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque . From 1939 to 1958 he was professor at Tulane University in New Orleans and then until 1973 professor of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA). Englekirk co-founded the Revista Iberoamericana magazine in 1938 , which he published from 1959 to 1961.
Englekirk was President of the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese in 1949 and President of the International Institute of Ibero-American Literature / Instituto Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana (IILI) from 1965 to 1967.
Other works
- (Ed. With Lawrence Bayard Kiddle ) Mariano Azuela , Los de abajo. Novela de la revolución Mexicana , New York 1939, 1971
- A literatura norteamericana no Brasil , Mexico 1950
- (with Gerald Eward Wade ) Bibliografía de la novela colombiana , Mexico 1950
- (Ed.) El epistolario Pombo-Longfellow , Bogotá 1954 [1956]
- La literatura y la revista literaria en Hispanoamérica, in: Revista Iberoamericana 51–53, 55, 1961–1963
- (with Irving A. Leonard , John T. Reid and John A. Crow) An outline history of Spanish American literature , New York 1965
- De lo nuestro y de lo ajeno. Estudios y ensayos , Mexico 1966
- (with Margaret M. Ramos) La narrativa uruguaya. Estudio crítico-bibliográfico , Berkeley 1967
- (Ed. With others) An anthology of Spanish American literature , New York 1968
literature
- Alfredo A. Roggiano : John E. Englekirk o la fraternidad por la cultura , in: Revista Iberoamericana 51 (1995), pp. 130-131
Web links
- Literature by and about John Eugene Englekirk in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)
- Instituto Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Englekirk, John Eugene |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American Romanist, Hispanic, and Lusitanist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 24, 1905 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | new York |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 30, 1983 |
| Place of death | los Angeles |