Juan Carlos Hernandez Cuevas
Assistant Professor of Spanish

• EDUCATION:
  
  Ph.D. - Filología Hispánica (cum laude). Dissertation: “Los cuentos mexicanos de Max Aub: la recreación del ámbito nacional de México”. Thesis Committee: Dr. Ignacio Soldevila Durante (Recognized as a world leading researcher in this field), Dr. Miguel Ángel Lozano Marco. University of Alicante. Valencia, Spain.
• M.A. - Spanish Language and Literature: Latin American and Spanish Literature. Thesis: “El impacto social del alcoholismo en Chin Chin el teporocho”. Master thesis. Portland State University, Portland, Oregon, USA.
• B.A. - Arts and Letters. Portland State University, Portland, Oregon, USA.
• Minor in Black Studies. Portland State University. Portland, Oregon, USA.
• Teaching Degree in Elementary Education. Escuela Nacional de Maestros, Mexico City, Mexico.

SPECIALIZATION:

• Spanish American and Spanish Literatures Hispanic Studies
• Grandes maestros del cuento transterrado (current research). This is an anthology of published and unpublished short stories by two generations of Spanish writers.
• Epistolario mexicano: crónica cultural del siglo XX (current research). A collection of letters, which explains the literary relationship of Max Aub and Mexican writers Alfonso Reyes, Julio Torri, Ermilo Abreu Gómez, Mauricio Magdaleno, Ramón Rubín, Celestino y José Gorostiza; Jaime Torres Bodet, Octavio Paz, Rodolfo Usigli, Héctor Azar, Carlos Solórzano, Agustín Yáñez, Jesús Silva Herzog, Antonio Castro Leal, Daniel Cosío Villegas, José Luis Martínez, Fernando Benítez, Jaime García Terrés, Gutierre Tibón, Carlos Fuentes, Rubén Bonifaz Nuño, Elías Nandino, Carlos Chávez, José Emilio y Cristina Pacheco; Silvio Zavala, Manuel y Pablo González Casanova, Leopoldo Zea, Rafael Solana.

HONORS & AWARDS:

• Literary Researcher. Fundación Max Aub, Segorbe, Valencia, Spain.
• Prizes and awards:
• Finalist of Concurso Literario “La Felguera”. Sociedad de Festejos y Cultura “SAN PEDRO” Principado de Asturias, Spain.
• The University of British Columbia Ph. D. Tuition Fee Award. Vancouver, Canada.
• Max Aub Foundation Research Award Recipient. Segorbe, Spain.