Emil Volek

Puesto actual

Profesor de español, teoría cultural y literaria, cultura y literatura latinoamericana, y cultura y literatura centroeuropea en la School of International Letters and Cultures (antes Department of Languages and Literatures) de la Arizona State University (Campus Tempe), de 1984 a la fecha. Afiliado al Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies. Miembro fundador del Russian and East European Studies Consortium (ahora The Melikian Center: Russian, Eurasian & East European Studies). Facultad de Honores.

Puestos académicos

1984 - a la fecha       Professor of Spanish, Arizona State University.

1978-1984      Associate Professor of Spanish, Arizona State University.

1976-1978      Assistant Professor of Spanish, Arizona State University.

1974-1976       Visiting Professor, Romanisches Seminar der Universität zu Köln, Cologne.

1972-1973      Visiting Professor, Charles University, Prague.

1969-1974       Research Fellow and Senior Research Fellow in Ibero-American Literatures, Institute of Languages and Literatures (including former Cabinet for Modern Philology), Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, Prague.

Educación

Charles University, Prague (Czechoslovakia), 1961-1967, Degree: Prom. Phil. [Equivalent of M.A.] Spanish (Major) and English (Minor) (Portuguese as a Second Minor, 1962-1965, Catalan, 1963-1964).

Universidad de La Habana (Cuba), 1966. (Studies in Spanish American poetry under Roberto Fernández Retamar and research in Spanish American and Cuban literature under José Antonio Portuondo.)

Charles University, Prague, 1970, Doctor Philosophiae in History of Romance Literatures, Specialization in History of Spanish and Ibero-American Literatures, and in Theory of Literature.

Dissertation: Dos décadas de la narrativa de Alejo Carpentier: 1944-1962. Director: Oldřich Bĕlič.

Charles University, Prague, 1970-1972, postgraduate program in Aesthetics.

Thesis: Dialectics of the Specificity of Art: Russian Formalism, Czech Structuralism, and Marxism, 1973 (in Czech).

The School of Criticism and Theory, University of California at Irvine, Summer 1978 (NEH Fellowship; seminars with Hayden White, Wolfgang Iser, and Fredric Jameson).