Professor Emeritus
julianolivares8583@gmail.com
CV
Autobiography

Education

• Ph.D – The University of Texas at Austin (1977)
• M.A. – The University of Texas at Austin (1974)
• B.A. – California State College at Los Angeles (1968)

Appointments

• Chairman, Modern & Classical Languages, University of Houston, 1994-98
• Professor of Spanish, Modern and Classical Languages, University of Houston, 1993-
• Faculty Administrative Intern, Senior Vice President and Provost/Associate Vice President for Faculty Affairs, University of Houston, 1993.
• Associate Professor, Hispanic & Classical Languages, University of Houston, 1986-93
• Visiting Scholar, Department of Spanish & Portuguese, The University of Texas at Austin, 1985-86
• Assistant Professor, University of Houston, 1981-85
• Assistant Professor, Bridgewater State College, 1978-81
• Lecturer, University of Massachusetts at Boston, 1977-78

Grants, Prizes & Recognitions

• National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, 2000-01
• National Endowment for the Humanities/National Archives Grant for Documentary Editing, University of Wisconsin, June-July, 1993.
• University of Houston President 's Research and Scholarship Fund Grant, 1992-93. For: Spanish Archival Research, Spanish Women Poets, 16th-18th centuries.
• Grant-to-Hispanists, Spanish Department of State, Ministry of Cultural Relations, July-August, 1992. For: Spanish Archival Research, Spanish Women Poets, 16th-18th centuries.
• American Philosophical Society Grant, July-August, 1992. For: Spanish Archival Research, Spanish Women Poets, 16th-18th centuries.
• National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend, 1989 For: Lírica femenina de los Siglos de Oro.
• Grant-to-Hispanists, Spanish Department of State, Ministry of Cultural Relations, May-August, 1988. For: Archival Research, Anthology of Spanish Women Poets of 16th-17th Centuries.
• National Endowment for the Humanities, Travel Grant to Collections: University of California, Riverside, Tomás Rivera Archives, 1987. For: Collected Works of Tomás Rivera.
• National Research Council/Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship for Minorities, 1985-86. For: Spanish Women Poets of the Golden Age.
• National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Stipend in Spanish Paleography, Newberry Library, Chicago, 1984.
• Grant-in-Aid to Recent Recipients of the Ph.D., American Council of Learned Societies, 1979. For: The Love Poetry of Francisco de Quevedo.

Publications

Books & Editions (Selection)

• María de Zayas y Sotomayor. La traición en la amistad.  Edición, estudio preliminar y notas de Julián Olivares. Biografía de María de Zayas de Alberto Rodríguez de Ramos.  Prensas Universitarias de Zaragoza. 2022.
• Zayas y Sotomayor, María de. Honesto y entretenido sarao (Primera y segunda parte). 2 vols. Edición, estudio preliminar y notas de Julián Olivares. Zaragoza: Prensas Universitarias de Zaragoza, 2017.
• Olivares, Julián & ElizabethS. Boyce, eds. Tras el espejo la musa escribe: Lírica femenina de los Siglos de Oro. 2ª ed. revisada.  Madrid: Siglo XXI/Akal
• Olivares, Julián, ed. Eros divino: Estudios sobre la poesía religiosa iberoamericana del Siglo XVII. Zaragoza: Prensas Universitarias de Zaragoza, 2011.
•  Olivares, Julián, ed. Quevedo y la crítica norteamericana. La Perinola, Revista de Investigación Quevediana, 14 (2010). Universidad de Navarra.
• Olivares, Julián. The Love Poetry of Francisco de Quevedo. Cambridge: Cambridge UP [1984]. Cambridge paperback reprint, 2009.
• Olivares, Julián, ed. Studies on Women’s Poetry of the Golden Age.. Woodbridge (England): Támesis, 2009.
• Juan Jesús González Ruiz.  Huyendo el fascismo y el trato de una . . . ¿democracia? Ed. Julián Olivares. Madrid: Foca, 2009. ISBN 9788496797093.
• María de Zayas y Sotomayor,  Novelas amorosas y ejemplares. Edición crítica de Julián Olivares. Madrid: Catedra, 2000. “Introducción”: 11-147.
• “. . . con triste canto.” Golden Age Studies in Memory of Daniel L. Heiple. Ed. Julián Olivares. Special issue of Calíope 6.2-1 (2000).
• La poesía amorosa de Francisco de Quevedo: Estudio estético y existencial. Madrid: Siglo XI Editores, 1995.
• Tras el espejo la musa escribe: Lírica femenina de los Siglos de Oro. Edición con estudio crítico y notas de Julián Olivares y Elizabeth S. Boyce. Madrid: Siglo XXI Editores, 1993.
• Cuentos hispanos de los Estados Unidos. Edición, introducción y notas de Julián Olivares. Houston: Arte Público, 1993; rpt. 1994; 2nd ed. 1998.
• Tomás Rivera: The Complete Works. Edited, with a critical introduction and notes by Julián Olivares. Houston: Arte Público, 1991; 2nd. edition, 1995.
• The Searchers: Collected Poetry, by Tomás Rivera. Edited, with a critical introduction and notes by Julián Olivares. Houston: Arte Público, 1990.
• The Harvest, Short Stories, by Tomás Rivera/ La cosecha, cuentos de Tomás Rivera. Bilingual Edition, translated, edited and with a critical introduction by Julián Olivares. Houston: Arte Público, 1989.
• The Love Poetry of Francisco de Quevedo: an Aesthetic and Existential Study. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1983.

Articles (Selection)

• The Socio-Editorial History of the Narrative Works of María de Zayas y Sotomayor. ehumanista 2016.
  http://www.ehumanista.ucsb.edu/volumes/35
• Olivares Julián & Antonio Sanchez Jiménez, "Lope de Vega y El Greco: Ut pictura poesis en el Toledo del siglo XVII." Bulletin of Hispanic Studies 88.1 (2011): 21-41.
• "Presentacion."  Quevedo y la crítica norteamericana. La Perinola 14 (2010): 11-15. Coord. Julían Olivares.
• Género sexuado, género literario y la ansiedad de autoría en la poesía sacra de sor Violante del Cielo."  Eros divino. La poesía religiosa del Siglo XVII. Coord. Julián Olivares. Zaragoza: Prensas Universitarias de Zaragoza (2010-11)
• “Introduction.” ."  Studies on Women’s Poetry of the Golden Age. 1-18.
• “ Vir melancholicus/Femina tristis: Towards a Poetics of Women’s Loss."  Studies on Women’s Poetry of the Golden Age. 19-50.
• "Sor María de la Antigua's  Coloquios with Examiners, Editors, Saints, and God."  Studies on Women’s Poetry of the Golden Age. 270-80.
• “Afterword.” .  Studies on Women’s Poetry of the Golden Age. 281-92.
• “A Case for a Fourth State of Herrera’s  Anotaciones, and the Case of the Spurious License.”  Studies in Honor of James O. Crosby. Ed. Lía Schwartz. Juan de la Cuesta, 2004.
• “Vir melancholicus/Femina tristis: Towards a Poetics of Women’s Loss.” “. . . con triste canto.” Golden Age Studies in Memory of Daniel L. Heiple. Ed. Julián Olivares. Special issue of Calíope 6.2-1 (2000): 263-94.
• "Sandra Cisneros:  The House on Mango Street and the Poetics of Space.”  Charting New Frontiers in American Literature: Chicana Creativity and Criticism. U of New Mexico P, 1996. Rpt.
• "Entering  The House on Mango Street.” Teaching Ethnic American Literature. Eds. John Maitino and David Peck. Albuquerque: U of New Mexico P, 1996. 209-35.
• "In Her Image: Christ and the Female Body in Women's Religious Poetry of the Golden Age.”  Calíope 1.1-2 (1995): 111-33.
• "Sor Violante del Cielo (y de la Tierra) and the Subversion of Amorous Lyrical Discourse.”  Estudios en homenaje a Ricardo Gullón. Ed. Adelaida Martínez. Lincoln: U of Nebraska P 1995. 189-201.
• "'Soy un fue, y un será, y un es cansado': Text and Context.  Hispanic Review 63.3 (1995): 387-410.
• "The Theme of Death in Quevedo's Love Poetry.” Excerpt from  The Love Poetry of Francisco de Quevedo: an Aesthetic and Existential Study (Chap. 5), in "Quevedo,"  Literature Criticism From 1400 to 1800, Vol. 23. Eds. James E. Person, Jr. & Zoran Miderovic. Detroit: Gale Research, 1994. 190-94.
• "El sueño en la poesía amorosa de Quevedo.” Selected pages translated from  The Love Poetry of Francisco de Quevedo, in:  Historia y Crítica de la Literatura Española, Vol. 3,  Siglos de Oro: Barroco (Suplemento). Ed. Aurora Egido (1992): 338-44.
• "Towards the Penitential Verse of Quevedo's  Heráclito cristiano.” Forum for Modern Language Studies (University of St. Andrews/Oxford University) 28.3 (July 1992): 251-67.
• The Russell Lee Collection of 'Spanish-Speaking People in Texas Study'," a photo essay.  The Americas Review 19.3-4 (1991): 17-18+.
• "'La cosecha' y 'Zoo Island' de Tomás Rivera: Apuntes hacia la formación de . . .  y no se lo tragó la tierra.” Hispania 74.1 (March, 1991): 57-65.
• "Aldana, Quevedo and  la paga del mundo." Hispanic Journal 11.2 (1990): 57-70.
• "Los índices primitivos de . . .  y no se lo tragó la tierra de Tomás Rivera y cuatro estampas inéditas.”  Crítica, a Journal of Critical Essays 2.2 UCSD, 1990): 208-22.
• "The Streets of Gary Soto."  Latin American Literary Review 18 (1990): 32-49.
• "Autobiographical Disclosures: Tino Villanueva Interviews Anthony Quinn."  U. S. Hispanic Autobiography ( The Americas Review 16.3-4, 1988): 108-35. Interview in collaboration with Tino Villanueva.
• "Two Chicano Verse Chronicles."  U. S. Hispanic Autobiography ( The Americas Review 16.3-4, 1988): 206-23.
• "Sandra Cisneros:  The House on Mango Street and the Poetics of Space.”  Charting New Frontiers in American Literature: Chicana Creativity and Criticism. Houston & Irvine: Arte Público/U of California, 1988. 160-69.
• "Introduction,"  Shaking Off The Dark by Tino Villanueva. Houston: Arte Público, 1984. i-ix.
• "Levity and Gravity: the Interpretation of the Ludic Element in Quevedo's 'Comunicación de amor invisible por los ojos' and Donne's 'The Extasie'."  Neophilologus (Amsterdam), 68.4 (1984): 534-45.
• "Seeing and Becoming: Evangelina Vigil,  Thirty an' Seen a Lot.."  The Chicano Struggle, Analyses of Past and Present Efforts. Binghamton, NY: Bilingual, 1984. 152-65

Translations

• Beatriz González-Stephan. “The Politics of Hispanism at Rice University: Or When is a Hispanic a Minority.” PMLA 2004.
• Beatriz González-Stephan. “A Gothic Glass Case in the Tropical Forest: The First Venezuelan National Exhibition of 1883.” Ed. Joseph Childers. Charlottesville VA: U of Virginia P, 2007. 216-30.

Reviews

• Candelas Colodrón, Manuel Angel.  La poesía de Quevedo. Vigo: Universidade de Vigo, 2007.  Bulletin of Spanish Studies 86.5 (2009): 694-96.
• Domínguez Caparrós, José. Métrica de Cervantes. Alcalá de Henares: Centro de Estudios Cervantinos, 2002. Cervantes. Bulletin of the  Cervantes Society of America (at press).
• Aguilar, Ricardo, ed.  Cuento chicano del siglo XX, Breve antología. México: UNAM-Coyoacán/New Mexico State University, 1993. 304 pp. Hispania 78.1 (1995): 79-81.
• Lía Schwartz Lerner,  Quevedo: Discurso y Representación. Pamplona: Universidad de Navarra, 1986.  Journal of Hispanic Philology 12.2 (1988): 165-67.
• Ignacio Arellano Ayusa,  Poesía satírico burlesca de Quevedo. Pamplona: Universidad de Navarra, 1984.  Hispanic Review 54.3 (1986): 338-40.
• Daniel L. Heiple,  Mechanical Imagery in Spanish Golden Age Poetry. Madrid: José Porrúa, 1983.  Modern Language Notes 101.2 (1986): 437-40.
• Fray Luis de León,  Poesías. Estudio, texto crítico, bibliografía y comentario de Oreste Macrí. Barcelona: Crítica, 1978. Hispanic Review 53 (1985): 98-100.
• Maxime Chevalier,  Folklore y literatura: el cuento oral en la literatura del Siglo de Oro. Barcelona: Crítica, 1978. Hispania 63.3 (1980): 606-08

Courses Taught

• Golden Age Prose
• Golden Age Poetry
• Colden Age Comedia
• Don Quijote
• Literatura femenina del Siglo de Oro
• Introduction to Hispanic Literature
• Spanish Literature: Medieval-Baroque
• Spanish Civil War
• Chicano Literature