José Luis Gómez Martínez
| José Luis Gómez Martínez | |
|---|---|
| Born |
José Luis Gómez Martínez June 1, 1943 Soria, Spain |
| Occupation | Professor, Author |
| Known for | Theory of the essay, Hispanic non-fiction prose, Latin American thought, and Latin American fiction |
| Notable work | Teoría del ensayo (1992),Más allá de la pos-modernidad: el discurso antrópico y su praxis en la cultura iberoamericana (1999) |
| Spouse(s) | Béatrice de Thibault |
| Children | José, Javier, Miguel |
| Website | http://www.ensayistas.org |
José Luis Gómez Martínez (born June 1, 1943) is a Professor Emeritus of Spanish at the University of Georgia. Essayist and literary critic, his research into the theory of the essay, along with his work on Hispanic thought and Latin American fiction helped push literary boundaries and open up new lines of thinking within and outside of academia. During his professional career José Luis Gómez won several awards for his scholarly contributions, including the prestigious Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship (l984-1985), the Albert Christ-Janer Award (1988), named Professor of the Year by the AATSP-GA (American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese Georgia Chapter, 1999), the 1989 Sturgis Leavitt Prize. In 2000 he was elected Membro Correspondente da Academia Brasileira de Filosofia (Acceptance Speech 2005).
José Luis Gómez Martínez was born in Soria, Spain, on June 1, 1943, in a family of limited financial resources at the end of the Spanish Civil War. His father was Basque and a Republican activist, his mother from the agricultural area of Taldecuende (Soria). His childhood and adolescence took place in small villages of Soria. He studied at the Instituto Antonio Machado of Soria, and once completed, he entered the Teacher College, first in Soria and then, in 1962, in Bilbao. The oppressive socio-political environment of the time (Francisco Franco’s dictatorship) drove him, once finished his studies in 1963, to leave Spain. He traveled first to Germany, where he funded his studies in Heidelberg and Munich with temporary jobs. In 1967 he married Béatrice de Thibault (of Belgian nationality) and moved to the United States. Always with the need for financial resources to continue funding his studies, he worked for two years at the Spanish Consulate in Chicago, as a cultural link with secondary educational establishments; at the same time, followed graduate studies in Linguistics and Hispanic Literature at Roosevelt University. In 1970 he joined the University of Iowa, and obtained the doctorate in 1973. His pedagogic vocation led him to teach, throughout these years, private lessons of Spanish, high school courses for Spanish emigrants in Germany, and at various institutions in the United States. In 1974 the University of Georgia offered him a position for the teaching of Spanish and Latin American Thought. In 1989 the University of Georgia appointed him Distinguished Research Professor. He compensated the relative isolation for teaching at an institution in the American South with active participation in numerous professional associations (was elected President of the Society for Iberian and Latin American Thought, 1992-1994). Gómez Martinez maintained, above all, fruitful relations, both through the biannual Seminar of Salamanca, Spain, and in several Latin American countries (Bolivia, Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil, Venezuela, Peru...), but especially in Mexico, at the UNAM and Universidad Iberoamericana. Since 1997 he maintains a portal on Internet dedicated to Hispanic Thought (http://www.ensayistas.org/). In the year 2000 was elected "Member Correspondente da Academia Brasileira de philosophy") and in 2008 "Socio de Honor" of the Asociación de Hispanismo Filosófico.
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