Fernando Burgos
Professor Emeritus of Spanish
Phone Email fburgos@memphis.edu Fax 901.678.5338 Office Jones Hall 201C Office Hours Call for HoursEducation
B.A. (1970) Universidad de Chile
Ph.D (1981) University of Florida
About Dr. Burgos P茅rez
Dr. Fernando Burgos P茅rez completed his BA at the Universidad de Chile with the degree Profesor de Espa帽ol and received his Ph.D. in Romance Languages from the University of Florida where he was awarded a Recognition for Outstanding Contribution. Before coming to the University of 糖心Vlog传媒, he taught intensive language courses for two summers at Middlebury College in Vermont. He also taught literature for four years at the University of Chile-Osorno as an assistant professor. His area of research includes twentieth and twentieth-first century Latin American narrative. Professor Burgos P茅rez has delivered more than ninety papers at international and national conferences and has been invited as a keynote speaker at the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima, Per煤 and at the University of Cincinnati. In his more than eighty articles and fourteen books, Professor Burgos P茅rez has discussed the fundamental tenets of both modernity and postmodernity in Latin American literature. Vertientes de la modernidad hispanoamericana (Caracas, 1995), Cuentos de Hispanoam茅rica en el siglo XX (3 vols. Madrid, 1997), Los escritores y la creaci贸n en Hispanoam茅rica (Madrid, 2004), Un lector y un escritor tras el enigma: la narrativa de Enrique Jaramillo Levi (Panam谩, 2010), and Una temporada en la posmodernidad latinoamericana (Santiago, Chile, 2017) are among his published books.