Email: rforns@hotmail.com
Office Telephone: (303) 556-3012
May 1995: Ph.D. in Spanish, Arizona State University. Major field of concentration: Latin American Literature. Minor: Cultural Theory. Dissertation: "Poesía vertical (1958-1993) de Roberto Juarroz: Hacia una poética del sujeto." Director: Dr. David William Foster.1984-88: Spanish Licenciature in Linguistics and Literature, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. Major field of concentration: Spanish and Spanish American literatures. Minor: Linguistics applied to literary studies.
1981-83: Bachelor in Humanities, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. General studies. Thesis: "La estrategia comunicativa del Semanario Crítico de Juan Antonio Olavarrieta: Ilustración y Polémica en el periodismo limeño de 1791." Director: José Antonio Rodríguez.
In addition to teaching Spanish Language and Culture courses in the Multimedia Classrooms of the Plaza Building, his interests include Spanish and Latin American Literature with emphasis in poetry (from colonial centuries until 20th century), Latin American film, theater, and popular culture, photography, Latin American essay and aphorism, Colonial Spanish American Literature, Environmental Studies and Spanish-American Literature, Latin American Civilization and Culture, Critical and Cultural Theory.
He is presently in the Asociación de Literatura Femenina Hispánica (ALFH), Association for the Study of Literature and Environtment (ASLE), Latin American Studies Association (LASA), Modern Language Association (MLA), Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association (RMMLA).
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Please send your suggestions or comments to him at: rforns@mscd.edu.
Last modified: October 19, 1999.