COURSES

 

Fall 2018

Spanish 362: Modern Spanish Theater and Cinema
Spanish 490.1: Senior Seminar: Genre and Literary Theory

Spanish 490.2: Senior Seminar: Genre and Literary Theory

Spring 2018

Cultural Studies Program 50: Existentialism: Literature and Philosophy

RESEARCH AND PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY

Professor Ellis has published five books.  His most recent, They Need Nothing: Hispanic-Asian Encounters of the Colonial Period, was published by the University of Toronto Press in 2012.  His previous books include a comparative analysis of Miguel de Unamuno and Jean-Paul Sartre, The Tragic Pursuit of Being (1988); an existentialist analysis of St. John of the Cross, San Juan de la Cruz (1992); a study of contemporary Spanish autobiography, The Hispanic Homograph (1997); and a study of Latin American autobiography, They Dream not of Angels but of Men (2002).

In 1997 he received a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities for his research on Latin American autobiography. In 2005 he was granted the Norman Bridge Distinguished Professorship in Spanish at Occidental College. In 2008 he was appointed to the PMLA Advisory Committee for a three-year term in the area of post-1800 Spanish literature.

 

Department of Spanish and French Studies -  1600 Campus Rd.  Los Angeles, CA 90041