Department of Languages and Cultures

Office:   Atrium 241
Phone:   (973) 720-2516
Email:   delasuareeo@wpunj.edu
Office Hours:   M,T,W 2:00-3:00 pm

Department: Languages and Cultures
Position: Professor of Language and Cultures and Department Chairperson
Area Specialization: Modernismo, Latin American Poetry, Miguel de Cervantes and Baroque Literature

Educational Background:

• PhD, Spanish, City University of New York, 1976
• M.A., Spanish, City College of New York, 1970
• B.A., Spanish and Education, University of Miami (FL), 1966

Courses Taught:

• Seminar on Latin American Literature
• Seminar on Spanish Literature
• Modernismo
• Cervantes and his Age
• Contemporary Spanish American Poets
• José Martí: A Writer of the Third World
• Golden Age of Spain
• Introduction to Latin American Studies
• Cultural Roots and Continuities I and II

Recent Publications:

Books:

• Delasuaree, Octavio.   Al combate corred exiliados: Ensayos sobre poesía cubana contemporánea de los Estados Unidos (Unpublished: 2009).
• Delasuaree, Octavio and Kenneth Cappetta.   Aprende algo: poemas y cuentos para despertar el interés. Dubuque (IA): Kendall-Hunt Publishing, 2008.
• Cappetta, Kenneth and Octavio Delasuaree.   Todos a bordo: cuentos de siempre para el mundo de hoy.  Dubuque (IA): Kendall-Hunt Publishing, 2008.

Articles:

•  “La primera mujer poeta laureada”.  Editorial article in Círculo Poético Literary Magazine (Año 2009). Cuaderno XXXIX  (Verona: NJ), pp. 7-11. Fall 2010.
• “Originalidad y creación en la obra de Rómulo Lachatañeré”, ‘Con Cuba en la distancia’ Association Proceedings.  Madrid:  Fundación Hispano-Cubana (Forthcoming 2010-2011).
•  “Miguel de Cervantes y William Shakespeare a través del personaje ‘Cardenio’”,  Círculo: Revista de Cultura (Verona, NJ), Vol. XXXV (2005), pp. 7-12.   

Book Reviews:

• Man-Making Words (Selected Poems of Nicolás Guillén). 2nd ed.  Translated and edited by Roberto Márquez and David Arthur Murray. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2003, 310 pp, in Cuban Affairs Journal (Vol. 4, Issue 3), November 2009.
• Voces de cambio (Nueva literatura cubana). Prologue by Carlos Alberto Montaner. Miami, FL: Ediciones El Cambio, 2006, 310 pp, in Cuban Affairs Journal (Vol. 4, Issue 3), November 2009.                                    

Works in Progress

• Two books in progress: a second essay collection on Cuban Poetry in the United States and an essay collection on Miguel de Cervantes’  Don Quijote.

Recent Conference Presentations

•  “Charada cubana con personajes: A Propos de “El juicio de Jicotea” de Lydia Cabrera”.   Círculo de Cultura Panamericano XLVIII Annual Convention, William Paterson University, November 6-7-8, 2010.  
•  “Junot Díaz as a Post-Modern Writer”, New Jersey Committee on the Humanities Series.  Toms River Public Library, Toms River, NJ, October 15, 2009.
•  “Tales of Two Cities: Paterson and Santo Domingo in the Works of Junot Díaz”, Círculo de Cultura Panamericano XLVII Annual Convention.   William Paterson University, November 5-6-7, 2009. 
•  “Originalidad y creación en la obra de Rómulo Lachatañeré”, IV Congreso de la Asociación ‘Con Cuba en la distancia’. Valencia, España, November 17-21, 2008.
•  “Recordando a Don Emilio González López en el Graduate Center de C.U.N.Y.”,  Homenaje a Don Emilio González López frente a su busto (A Coruña, España). April 14, 2007.

Invited Lecture:

• Consideraciones sobre el modernismo hispanoamericano”, (Professor Nery Gómez Senior Spanish Class), St. Peters Prep School, Jersey City, NJ, December 16, 2009.

Editorial Work:

• Editor, Círculo Poético Poetry Magazine (Hoboken, NJ). Fall 2003 to Present.

Selected Fellowship, Honors, Rewards 

• Award for Excellence in Teaching, WPUNJ, 2005.
• Professor of the Year Award, Student Government Association, WPUNJ, 2001-2002
• Hispanic Leadership Fellows Program, Department of Higher Education, State of New Jersey, 1984.