NICOLÁS KANELLOS, PH.D.
413 Agnes
(713) 743-3128
1999 Recipient of the award for the best article
published in MELUS in 1999.
1998 Named to 100 Most Influential Hispanics in
the
1997 Named to 100 Most Influential Hispanics in
the
1996 Recipient
of the First Annual Hispanic Publication Award presented by the Hispanic Caucus
of the American Association of Higher Education.
1996 American
Library Association -
1996 Named to the first Brown Foundation endowed
chair at the
1995 Recipient
of the 10th Annual PREMIO Award for outstanding contributions in the publishing
industry by the Hispanic Public Relations Association in
1995 Esther Farfel Award, the highest award given
to a member of the faculty for research, teaching, and service by the
1995 Selection
of Handbook of Hispanic Cultures in the
1994 Appointed
by President Bill Clinton to the National Council on the Humanities (six-year
term).
1994 American
Library Association (Reference and Adult Section) Award for Best Reference Work
of 1993: The Hispanic American
Almanac: A Reference Work on Hispanics
in the
1994 Appointed
to the College Board Task Force on the Arts in Education in the
1993 Named
to 100 Most Influential Hispanics in the
1991 Southwest
Conference on Latin American Studies 1991 Book Award for A History of
Hispanic Theater in the United States:
Origins to 1940.
1991 Texas
Institute of Letters Award for the Book Making the Most Significant
Contribution to Knowledge: A History
of Hispanic Theater in the
1990
1989 American
Book Award (Publisher/Editor Category), Before Columbus Foundation, presented
at the American Booksellers Association.
1989 Commendation
from the Governor of Texas for high standards of academic excellence.
1989
1989 Named
to 100 most Influential Hispanics in the
1988 Hispanic Heritage Award for
Literature, presented by President Ronald Reagan, the
White House.
1987 Appointment
to the Literature Policy Panel, National Endowment for the Arts (3-year term).
1986-1987 Ford
Foundation/National Research Council Fellowship
1985 Ceremonies
at the Palace of Fine Arts held by the Mexican Department of Education (SEP) in
honor of discovering a lost novel, Las aventuras de Don Chipote, that is
part of Mexican cultural patrimony, and to announce SEP's publication of the
book with my introduction.
1984 Induction into the Texas Institute of
Letters.
1984 Election
to the
1983 Elected to PEN.
1980 A
special breakfast in honor of "achievement as a scholar, critic and
educator," given by the Society for the Study of Multiethnic Literature
(MELUS) of the Modern Language Association.
1979 $5,000
Award for Outstanding Editor from the Coordinating Council of Literary
Magazines.
1979 National
Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship.
1976-1977 Eli Lilly
Faculty Open Fellowship.
1974 & 1976
1976-1970 Calouste
Gulbenkian Fellowship for Research in
Director, “Recovering
the Hispanic Literary Heritage of the United States,” a national ten-year
project to locate, study, index and commit to print and electronic media the
whole of U.S. Hispanic literature from Colonial times to 1960. The $20-million project involves leading and
coordinating teams of scholars and consortia nation-wide.
(Editing/Publishing)
Publisher, Arte Público
Press Books,
Publisher, The Americas Review (formerly Revista
Chicano-Riqueña),
Editorial Board Member, Latin American Theatre Review,
1982 to Present.
Editorial Board Member, Critica,
1983 to Present.
Editorial Board member, Confluencia,
1984 to Present.
Editorial Board member, Southwest
Review, 1990 to Present.
Editorial Board member, Latino
Studies Journal, 1990 to Present.
Editorial Board member, MELUS,
1999 to Present.
Board member,
A.D.E.C.L.A.N., Université Paris VII/III Sourbonne nouvelle.
Editorial
Board member, Theater in the
(Books)
Herencia: The Anthology of Hispanic Literature of the
En otra voz: antología de la literatura hispana de los
Estados Unidos.
(Director General)
Noche Buena: Hispanic American Christmas Stories. (Editor/Compiler)
Hispanic Periodicals in the
Thirty
Million Strong: Reclaiming the Hispanic Image in
Hispanic Firsts.
The Hispanic Literary Companion.
Chronology
of Hispanic American History.
Hispanic American Chronology, edited with Bryan Ryan.
Hispanic American Literature (Editor).
Hispanic Almanac (Editor and Author of 50% of Chapters).
With
Claudio Esteva Fabregat, general editors, Handbook of Hispanic Cultures in
the United States. 4 vols. (Houston
and Madrid: Instituto de Cooperación
Iberoamericana and Arte Público Press, 1994).
The Hispanic American Almanac: A Reference Work on Hispanics in the
Short Fiction by
A History of Hispanic Theatre in the
Biographical Dictionary of Hispanic Literature in the
Hispanic Bibliography.
Mexican American Theatre: Legacy and Reality.
Hispanic Theater in the
Daniel Venegas, Las
aventures de Don Chipote, ed. and introd. by Nicolás Kanellos (Mexico: SEP
& CEFNOMEX, 1984).
An unknown novel of historical and literary
value discovered and edited by Professor Kanellos. Re-issued in English with
new introduction, Art Público Press, 2000. Re-issued, with new
introduction, in Spanish,
Mexican American Theater:
Then and Now
(Editor).
Latino Short Fiction, ed. Luis Dávila and
Nicolás Kanellos.
Press, 1980.
Nuevos Pasos: Chicano
and Puerto Rican Drama, eds. Nicolás Kanellos and Jorge Huerta.
Edited with Robert E. Beck, Sharon L. Belshaw, Mary Gloyne
Byler, Kenneth L. Chanbers, Barbara Z.
Chasen, Paula Grier, Ann Rayson the Ginn Literature Series of textbooks for
high school English: Introduction to
Literature, Exploring Literature, Understanding Literature, Types of
Literature, American Literature, English Literature, 1981.
(Critical Editions)
Alirio Diaz Guerra, Lucas Guevara (
Daniel Venegas, Los
aventuras de Don Chipote, o Cuando los pericos mamen (México: Plaza
y Valddez, 2000).
Daniel Venegas, The Adventures of Don Chipote: When Parrots Breast Feed (Houston: Arte
Público Press, 1999).
Daniel Venegas, Los aventuras de Don Chipote, o Cuando
los pericos mamen (
(Exhibits)
"Two Centuries of Hispanic Theater in the
"Two Centuries of Hispanic Theater in the
Southwest," a project funded by the humanities councils of
(Articles and Chapters)
“An Overview
of Latino Poetry: The Iceberg below the
Surface,” American Book Review (Nov.-Dec. 2002): 5, 10.
“Lucas Guevara: La primera novela de
inmigración hispana a los Estados Unidos,” Nicolás Kanellos and Imara Liz
Hernández, Hispania 85.4 (2002):
795-803
“Felix Francisco Varela y Morales,” Invisible Giants.
Fifty Americans Who Shaped the Nation But Missed the History Books.
“La
Literatura Latina en los Estados Unidos,” Insula (Julio-Agosto 2002);
4-10.
“An Historical Perspective on the Development of an Ethnic
Minority Consciousness in the Spanish Language Press of the Southwest.” Ethnic Studies Review 21 (1998): 27-50.
“Cronistas and
Satire in Early Twentieth-Century Hispanic Newspapers”, MELUS, 23/4
(writer, 1998): 3-25.
“The Hispanic Exile Press in the
“Chávez V. Arte Público Press: Reflections on Artists and
Copyright on Campus.”
“Victor Villaseñor,” Dictionary of Literary
Biography: Chicano Writers. Third Series, edited by Francisco
Lomelí.
“Pat Mora,” Dictionary of Literary Biography: Chicano Writers. Third Series, edited by Francisco
Lomelí.
“A Brief Overview of
Literary Presses and the Textbook Market (Chapbook),
“El periodismo hispano en los Estados Unidos: Apuntes para la historia,” Telos (
“A Socio-Historic Study of Hispanic Newspapers in the
“Brief History of
Hispanic Theater in the
“Teatro Villalongín,” Encyclopedia of the American West,
NewYork: Macmillan, 1995.
“The Impact of Mexican Immigration to
“Hispanic Roots:
Theatre,” From the Ground Up. Grassroots Theater in Historical and
Contemporary Perspective, ed. Janet Salmons Rue,
“Cuban Ameican Theater,” The
“Nuyorican Theater,” The
“Luis Valdez,” Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vol.
122, (1992): 281-292.
“Twenty-five
Years of Hispanic Theatre in the
“Tato Laviera,” The Before
“Teatro hispánico en los Estados Unidos,” Cultura Norte
4/12 (1990): 13-15.
“Orality and Hispanic Literature of the
“Spanish Exile Drama in
“Daniel Venegas,” Dictionary of Literary Biography: Chicano Writers Vol. 82 (1989): 271-274.
“La literatura hispana de los EEUU y el género
autobiográfico,” Hispanos en los Estado Unidos. eds. Rodolfo Cortina and Alberto Moncada. (Madrid: Instituto de Cooperación
Iberamericana, 1988): 219-230.
“Language and Dialog in Tomás Rivera's ... y no se lo
tragó la tierra,” International Studies in Honor of Tomás Rivera
(Houston: Arte Público Press, 1985):
53-65.
“The Mexican Stage in the
“Towards a History of Hispanic Literature in the
“Hacia la historia de la
literatura hispana de los Estados Unidos,” Imágenes e identidades:
El puertorriqueño en la literatura (Río Piedras: Ediciones Huracán, 1985).
“Canto y declamación en la poesía nuyoriqueña,” Confluencia
1/1 (Fall, 1985) pp. 102-106.
“The Mexican Circus in
the
pp. 78-84
“Nuyorican Writing and Beyond: American Academia and Latino
Writers,” Contact II 6/34-35 (Winter-Spring 1984-85) pp. 23.
“Chicano Theater,” Cyclopedia of Chicano Literature,
ed. Julio A. Martínez (Westport: Greenwood Press, 1985).
“Puerto Rican Literature from the Diaspora to the
Mainstream,” The American Book Review 7/1 (Nov.-Dec. 1984) pp. 16-17.
“Nineteenth Century
Origins of the Hispanic Theater in the Southwest,” Crítica (Spring 1984)
pp. 79-90
“Las aventuras de Don Chipote, obra precursora de la
novela chicana,” Hispania 67/3 (Fall 1984) pp. 358-363.
“The Mexican American Circus,” Collected Writings from
the Hertzberg Circus Project, ed. Susan J. Freiband (San Antonio: Institute
for Intercultural Studies and Research, 1982) pp. 24-37.
“Towards the Understanding of the Hispanic American
Theatrical Aesthetic,” The Hispanic American Aesthetic (San Antonio:
University of Texas Research Center for the Arts, 1983) pp. 97-109.
“The Flourishing of
Hispanic Theater in the Southwest,” Latin American Theater Review 16/1
(Fall 1983) pp. 29-40.
“El teatro mexicano en los Estados Unidos de 1910-1930,” Exposición
Chicana (Mexico: Centro de Estudios Económicos y Sociales, 1983).
“Two Centuries of Hispanic Theater in the Southwest,” The
“Theater,” A Decade
of Chicano Literature (1970-1979) Critical Essays and Bibliography
(Santa Barbara: Editorial La Causa, 1982) pp. 47-55.
“Chicano Theater in the
Seventies,” Theater (Journal of the
(Fall-Winter 1980) pp. 33-37.
“El teatro profesional hispánico: Orígenes en el Suroeste,” La
Palabra 2/1 (1980) pp. 16-24.
“Chicano Theater: A Popular Culture Battleground,” Journal
of Popular Culture 13/3 (Spring 1980) pp. 541-555.
“Elementos hispánicos en el teatro chicano,” XVII
Congreso del Instituto Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana (Madrid:
Centro Iberoamericano de Cooperación, 1978).
“A Latino Book Fair: Specialized but Successful,” More
Than a Gathering of Dreamers: A Guide to Organizing and Exhibiting at Book
Fairs (New York: Coordinating Council of Literary Magazines, 1980).
“Victor Hernández-Cruz and la salsa de Dios,”
Spanish-Speaking Outreach Institute Paper Series.
“Chicano Theater as Folklore and Folklore in Chicano
Theater,” Journal of the Folklore Institute, 15/1 (Jan.-April 1978) pp.
57-82. Reprinted in The Chicano
Experience, eds.
“Barrio versus Ghetto: The Poet versus the Sociolgist,” Selected
Proceedings of the 4th Annual Conference on Minority Studies, eds. George
E. Carter and James R. Parker (La
Crosse: Institute for Minority Studies, 1978) pp. 75-84.
“Fifty Years of Theater in the Latino Communities of
“VII Festival de los Teatros Chicanos,” Latin American
Theater Review 10/1 (Fall 1976) pp. 72-76.
“VI Festival de los Teatros Chicanos,” Latin American
Theater Review 9/1 (Fall 1975) pp. 81-84.
Compiled with others, “With
“Chicano Theater to
Date,” Tejidos 2/8 (Invierno 1975) pp. 40-46.
“Towards the Documentation of Mexican American Literature in
the
“The Anti-Semitism of Cervantes’ Los Baños de Argel and
La gran sultana: a reappraisal,” Bulletin of the Comediantes 27/1 (Spring
1975) pp. 48-52.
“La Llorona de
Alurista,” Otros Mundos, Otros Fuegos: Fantasía y Realismo en Iberoamérica
(Michigan State University: Instituto Internacional de Literatura
Iberoamericana, 1975)
pp. 261-265.
“Mexican Community
Theater in a
(Selected
List of Papers, Addresses, Lectures)
Not
updated since 1983
SINCE
THEN PAPERS AND LECTURES HAVE BEEN GIVEN IN
(NOT UPDATED SINCE 1983)
“An Overview of Hispanic
Publishing in the
“Notes Towards a History
of Hispanic Literatures in the
“The
Mexican Circus in the
February 1983.
“Literary Diversity
Within One Culture,”
“Devorados
pero no digeridos,” invited address, Diálogo de las
September 1982.
“Canto y declamación en
la poesía nuyoriqueña,” American Association of Teachers of Spanish and
Portuguese,
“On the History of
Mexican Theater in the Southwest,” invited address, Departments of Literature
and Drama,
“A Brief Overview of the
Mexican American Circus,” Southwest conference on Latin American Studies,
“Las aventuras de Don
Chipote:
primera novela chicana,” National Association of Chicano Studies,
“One Hundered Years of
Spanish-Language Theater in the Southwest,” invited lecture to the conference
as a whole, National Association of Chicano Studies,
“Latino Literature:
Towards an Aesthetic of Biliterary and Performance,” Modern Language
Association,
“The Government Support
of Literature,” invited testimony, American Writers Congress,
“Literatura
puertorriqueña en el continente de los Estados Unidos,” Simposio sobre la
Migración Puertorriqueña. Universidad
Inter-Americana, San Germán,
“Origen y desarrollo
“A Decade of Chicano
Theater,” Chicano Literature Symposium.
“Mexican American
Theater in the Southwest,” National Association of Chicano Studies,
“An Overview of Hispanic
Theater in the Southwest,” Southwest Conference on
“Apuntes para la historia
“Towards a History of Hispanic Theater in the
“Nuyorican
Poetry,” American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese,
“Literatura
Revolucionaria Oral,” Northeast Modern Language Association,
“Chicano Theater as
Literature,”
“Latino Literature in
“Elementos hispánicos en
el teatro chicano,” XVII Congreso Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana,
(Video Productions)
“Lalo Astol: El teatro
en mi vida,” produced and written by Nicolás Kanellos, aired on public
television stations throughout the Southwest and in Washington, DC, 1982.
“The Bilingual Education
Controversy: A Houston Perspective,” researched and written by Nicolás
Kanellos, aired on KUHT, 1982.
(Writings about
Professor Kanellos' Work)
“Nicolás
Kanellos: Portrait of a Publisher,” Lector (December, 1982) pp. 6-7.
“Who's to Blame? - El
Alcalde,” Chicano Theater Themes and Forms, by Jorge Huerta
(Ypsilanti: Bilingual Press, 1982) pp. 34-39.
“Nicolás Kanellos,
Puerto Rican Playmaker,” Land of the Millrats, by Richard Dorson
(Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1981) pp. 138-147.
“Nicolás Kanellos,” Latino
Voices, one of a cassette tape series distributed by satellite to public
radio stations throughout the
“Arte
Público: Publishing Latino Authors for a National Audience,” Publishers
Weekly,
“Little-Known Press
Promotes Works by Hispanics,” by Katherine S. Morgan. The Chronicle of
Higher Education. (
“Arte Público: Keeping
Hispanic Literature Alive,” Publishers Weekly,
“Arte
Público Press,” American Bookseller August 1989.
“The Social Value of
Good Literature: Focus on Arte Público Press,”
“Nicolás
Kanellos,” Latin American Writers (Detroit: Gale, 1990).
EDUCATION
Universidad Autónoma de Mexico Mexican Literature & Culture 1964-1965