Juan Bruce-Novoa
Professor of Spanish and Portuguese
Juan Bruce-Novoa was a Professor of Latin American and U.S. Chicano/Latino literatures and cultures, Film Studies, and Critical Theory at the University of California Irvine. He was born 20 June, 1944 in San José, Costa Rica, and he paased away June 11, 2010 in Irvine, CA. Prof. Bruce-Novoa received his B.A. from Regis College in 1966, and his PhD. from the University of Colorado in 1974. He is the author of several books, including the poetry collection Inocencia perversa/Perverse Innocence (1976), the novel Only the Good Times (1995), and the book of short stories Manuscrito de origen (Manuscript of Origin) (1995). He also wrote a number of books of literary criticism and compiled several anthologies, including Chicano Authors: Inquiry by Interviews (1980), Chicano Poetry: A Response to Chaos (1982), and RetroSpace: Collected Essays on Chicano Literature (1990). He published numerous articles on the Ruptura generation of artists, architects, and writers in Mexico. Specialist on the representation and image of Latin America in Hollywood films. Original member of the editorial board of the Heath Anthology of American Literature. Bruce-Novoa was awarded the José Fuentes Mares National Prize for Literature in Mexico, multiple Fullbright Professorships, and the Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship. He was the Co-founder of UC-Mexicanistas, an international association for the study of Mexican literature and culture housed in the University of California system. He also organized and directed the first and second International Conference on Chicano Culture and Literature, and taught at numerous universities, including Yale University, Trinity University, and UC Santa Barbara, where he was also the associate director of the Center for Chicano Studies. Has was also visiting professor at Harvard, Mainz, Erlangen, Berlin, and Düsseldorf. Prof. Bruce-Novoa began teaching at the University of California, Irvine in 1989, where he remained until his death in 2010.
Luis F. Avilés
Department of Spanish and Portuguese
