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Title

Dr.

Occupation

Professor

Discipline(s)

Spanish Golden Age, Colonial Spanish-American literature

University

Western Michigan University

College

Arts and Sciences

Department

Department of Spanish - WMU

Country

USA

Town / City

Kalamazoo, MI

Previous Universities

McGill University, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, University of Buenos Aires

my website

http://www.wmich.edu/spanish/

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Spanish Golden Age, Colonial Spanish-American literature, Cross-cultural narratives, Early Modern travel narratives, Shipwreck and captivity narratives, Spanish Humanism, Cervantes, The cultural triangle of Europe, Africa and the Americas, The Western configuration of the East and the New World in Early Modern texts.

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My Publications

Recent Refereed Publications: 

 

“Lecciones de allende la frontera: el Viaje de Turquía y supropuesta de apertura social.” Bulletin of Hispanic Studies. In press.

 

“Lamentos de doble filo: El trato de Argel y la dimensión geopolítica de la lucha por la unidad religiosa.” Cervantes. Bulletin of the Cervantes Society of America XXX, 1 (2010): 141-61.

 

“Cervantes, losmusulmanes nuevos y la Información de Argel.” Anales Cervantinos XLI (2009): 267-84.

 

“Traducción de la memoria: Elentenado de Juan José Saer.”  Hispanic Journal 28.2 (2007): 25-39.

 

“Ambivalencia en los discursos de apropiación del otro. Sobre la mansedumbre en el Diario de Colón y en la Brevísima de Las Casas.” Language and Literature Journal 1.1 (2006): 108-121. http://ojs.gc.cuny.edu/index.php/lljournal

 

“Redoble por Rancas y laconceptualización del (neo) indigenismo: una tendencia a la homogeneidad.” Ciberletras13 (2005).

http://www.lehman.cuny.edu/ciberletras/v13/ohanna.htm

 

“Discursoliterario y discurso referencial: Una excursión a los indios ranqueles, de Lucio V. Mansilla.” Alba de América 24.45-46 (2005): 113-120

 

 

Recent Creative Works: 

  

“Fondo.” Enfocarte 31 (2007).

 

Tedio (novel). Córdoba:Alción, 2006.

 

Forma de los charcos (poetry). Buenos Aires: LaBohemia, 2006.

 

“Dos poemas de Rondas.” Bilingualedition. Trans. Hugh Hazelton. Ellipse 73 (2004-2005): 58-61.

 

 

Refereed Presentations: 

 

“Para consolarlos con la palabra de Dios. Cipriano de Valera y loscautivos de Berbería.” The 45th InternationalCongress on Medieval Studies. WesternMichigan University. Kalamazoo, Michigan. May 2010.

“Cristianos nuevos de moros y musulmanes nuevosde cristianos: El nomadismo religioso en la primera comedia cervantina.” The Mid-America Conference onHispanic Literature. “Race, Religion, and Resistance.” University of Kansas.Lawrence, Kansas. November 2009.

 

“Cervantes, losmusulmanes nuevos y la Información deArgel.” The 51thAnnual Convention of the Midwest Modern Language Association (MMLA). St. Louis, Missouri. November 2009.

 

“Returnfrom Constantinople: A Call for Tolerance and Social Change in a SpanishHumanistic Dialogue.” The 50th Annual Convention of the Midwest Modern LanguageAssociation (MMLA). Minneapolis, Minnesota. November 2008.

 

“Una imagen de Álvar NúñezCabeza de Vaca y su recepción en la crítica contemporánea.” The Mid-AmericaConference on Hispanic Literature. University of Wisconsin, Madison, October2007.

 

“The Re-Creation of Facts by Álvar Núñez Cabezade Vaca in his Relación of 1542 and its Reception within ContemporaryCriticism.” 2007 Congress of the Canadian Association of Hispanists. Universityof Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, May 2007.

 

“Religión, poder y vida en un diálogo de ida yvuelta: el Viaje de Turquía.” 74^thCongress of the Association Canadienne-Française pour l’Avancement desSciences (ACFAS), Montreal, May 2006.

 

“Ambivalencia en los discursos de apropiacióndel otro: Sobre el estereotipo de la mansedumbre en el Diario de Colón yen la Brevísima relación de la destrucción de las Indias.” Colloque dejeunes chercheurs. Excursos, discursos y recursos de la investigaciónliteraria. Laval University, McGill University & University of Montreal,April 2005.

 

“Sobre la diferencia entre literatura y mundo. Unaexcursión a los indios Ranqueles, de Lucio V. Mansilla.” XXIV SimposioInternacional de Literatura. Instituto Literario y Cultural Hispánico. BuenosAires, August 2004.

 

 

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Professor Ohanna specializes in Spanish Golden Age and Colonial Spanish-American literatures. His area of research is the intellectual history of the Early Modern period, with a focus on the cultural triangle of Europe, Africa and the Americas in struggle and exchange, the Western discursive configuration of the East and the New World, Spanish Humanism in the time of the Counter-Reformation, and the functions and meanings of cross-cultural narratives of travel, shipwreck and captivity. Dr. Ohanna has published in academic journals such as Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, Cervantes: Bulletin of the Cervantes Society of America, Hispanic Journal, and Anales Cervantinos.