Rate My Professor José Martinez

Martínez's research focuses on fantastic literature in Spain and Latin America, Hispanoamerican Modernism, the works of Rubén Darío and Amado Nervo, literary criticism, cultural theory, and religion in Latin American writers. He has authored books including Amado Nervo y las lectoras del Modernismo (Verbum, 2015), Rubén Darío. Addenda (Cálamo, 2000), and Los espacios poéticos de Rubén Darío (Peter Lang, 1995). Notable edited volumes for Cátedra include Cuentos fantásticos del Romanticismo hispanoamericano (2011), Cuentos by Manuel Gutiérrez Nájera (2006), La amada inmóvil. En voz baja by Amado Nervo (2002), and Cuentos and Azul... by Rubén Darío (1997, 2006; 1995, 2014 editions). His articles have appeared in Revista Iberoamericana, Revista de Crítica Literaria Latinoamericana, Hispanic Journal, and Journal of Hispanic Modernism, addressing topics such as secularization in Modernismo, unpublished documents of Rubén Darío, and transatlantic synchronies. Awards include the Outstanding Faculty Award for professional achievement at UTPA in 2003 and 1996, the Provost Scholar Award in 2002, and finalist status for the XI Premio Internacional de Relato Hiperbreve, Círculo Cultural Faroni, in 2003. He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on Latin American and Spanish literature, including Fantastic Literature, Modernist Short Story, Literary Theory, and Advanced Placement Literature.