PATRICK DUFFEY
Professor of Spanish
Margarett Root Brown Chair of Foreign Languages and Literatures
Austin College Suite 61593
Sherman, Texas, 75090-4440
(903) 813-2377 FAX (903)
813-2011
pduffey@austincollege.edu
http://artemis.austincollege.edu/acad/cml/pduffey/PD.html
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Silent film and Peninsular and Spanish-American literature, 1900-1936; Twentieth-century Mexican literature; Spanish-American poetry
EDUCATION
Ph.D. The
University of Texas-Austin
Hispanic Literature, August 1994
M.A. The
University of Texas-Austin
Hispanic Literature, May 1992
ADMINISTRATIVE POSTS
January, 2014-January, 2018
Director, Mellon Digital Pedagogies Grant ($500,000)
July, 2008-
Fulbright Program Advisor
July, 2014-December,
2014 Associate Dean of
Faculty and Interim Director of Study Abroad
July, 2008- June,
2014 Dean of Humanities
July, 2004-June, 2008 Co-Director, Center for Southwestern and Mexican Studies
July, 2005-December, 2007
Chair, Department of Classical and Modern Languages
AWARDS
May, 2020
The Roy F. Melugin, Jr. Award for Excellence in Teaching in the Humanities
April, 2020
Austin College Excellence in Teaching Award
October, 2018
Austin College Faculty of the Month, selected by Austin College Student Assembly
September, 2017
Austin College Faculty of the Month, selected by Austin College Student Assembly
May,
2015 Austin College Award for Outstanding Service
May, 2010
Austin College Award for Outstanding Scholarship
May, 2005 Austin
College Award for Outstanding Service
May, 2002 Austin College Award for Outstanding Scholarship
Fall, 2001 Austin College Nominee, CASE Professors of the
Year Program
April, 1999 Austin College Faculty/Staff Co-Curricular Support
Award
FELLOWSHIPS
June 5-June 30, 2000. National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute, "Traversing Borders: A Southwestern Studies Faculty Institute," Center for the Study of the Southwest, Southwest Texas State University, San Marcos, Texas
BOOKS
De la pantalla al texto: La influencia del cine en la narrativa mexicana del siglo XX. México: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 1996.
Reviews:
Arias, Arturo. Rev. of De la pantalla al texto. La influencia del cine en la narrativa mexicana del siglo XX. By J. Patrick Duffey. Revista de Estudios Hispánicos (May, 1998): 427-29.
Dennis, Susan. Rev. of De la pantalla al texto. La influencia del cine en la narrativa mexicana del siglo XX. By J. Patrick Duffey. Hispania 82.4 (December, 1999): 778-779. http://www.jstor.org/stable/346356
Domínguez, Miguel. Rev. of De la pantalla al texto. La influencia del cine en la narrativa mexicana del siglo XX. By J. Patrick Duffey. Studies in Latin American Popular Culture 21 (2002): 257-59.
Grover, Mark L. Rev. of De la pantalla al texto. La influencia del cine en la narrativa mexicana del siglo XX. By J. Patrick Duffey. Chasqui: revista de literatura latinoamericana 28.1 (May, 1999): 129-132. http://www.jstor.org/stable/29741507
Harris, Christopher. Rev. of De la pantalla al texto. La influencia del cine en la narrativa mexicana del siglo XX. By J. Patrick Duffey. Bulletin of Hispanic Studies 78.2 (April, 2001): 268-271.
Mondragón Guzmán, Gloria Hortensia. Rev. of De la pantalla al texto. La influencia del cine en la narrativa mexicana del siglo XX. By J. Patrick Duffey. Literatura Mexicana 8.2 (1997): 814-22.
Carballo, Emmanuel, J. Patrick Duffey, et al., eds. ¿Que pais es este?: Los Estados Unidos y los gringos vistos por autores mexicanos de los siglos XIX y XX. Mexico: Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes, 1996.
ARTICLES AND CHAPTERS
"El silencio y la nueva mujer. El cine mudo en dos obras de Rosa Chacel y Antonio Paso," in Cine, literatura, teoría: aproximaciones transdisciplinarias. Eds. Angélica Tornero y Angel Miquel. Cuernavaca, Mexico: Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Morelos, 2014: 21-35.
"El diálogo entre imagen y espectador: El documental mexicano de la Revolución y la 'película local,'" in Prismas del cine latinoamericano. Ed. Wolfgang Bongers. Santiago de Chile: Cuarto Propio, 2012: 45-63.
"Una belleza mortal: Edgar Allan Poe, Clemente Palma y Jean Epstein," in Edgar Allan Poe en Malinalco. Eds. Francisco Javier Beltrán Cabrera and Cynthia Araceli Ramírez Peñaloza. Toluca, Mexico: Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México, 2012: 59-70.
"Crossing Gender Borders: Subversion of Cinematic Melodrama in Como agua para chocolate," in Laura Esquivel’s Mexican Fictions: Like Water for Chocolate, The Law of Love, Swift As Desire, Malinche: a Novel. Ed. Elizabeth Moore Willingham. Portland, OR: Sussex Academic Press, 2010: 64-75.
"Local Film and Global Warfare: Spectatorship and Identity in Benjamín Jarnés’s Locura y muerte de Nadie" Bulletin of Spanish Studies. Vol. 87.1: 69-84. January, 2010.
“La representación estadounidense de la guerra por Texas.” In La ficción de la historia: El siglo XIX en el cine mexicano. Ed. Ángel Miquel. Mexico City: Cineteca Nacional, 2010: 58-67.
"Simulacro y simulaciones: La artificialidad erótica del cine mudo en la narrativa mexicana de los años veinte." In Placeres en imagen: Fotografía y cine eróticos, 1900-1960. Ed. Ángel Miquel. Cuernavaca, Mexico: Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Morelos, 2009: 59-67.
"Entre una muñeca de cera y una mujer en coma: el fetichismo cinematográfico en la narrativa mexicana y española de los años veinte y treinta (y una película de Almodóvar)." In Imágenes cruzadas: México y España, siglos XIX y XX. Eds. Ángel Miquel, Jesús Nieto Sotelo, and Tomás Pérez Vejo. Cuernavaca, Mexico: Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Morelos, 2005: 105-113.
“Literary Long Shot and Close-up: Spatial Cinematic Techniques in the Works of Mariano Azuela and Francisco Ayala.” In Bridging Continents: Cinematic and Literary Representations of Spanish and Latin American Themes. Special Issue No. 2 of Chasqui. Eds. Nora Glickman and Alejandro Varderi. Tempe, AZ: Arizona State University, 2005: 153-165. http://www.jstor.org/stable/29742052?origin=JSTOR-pdf
“Un viaje inmóvil, una superficie profunda y el cine mudo” in Gilberto Owen Estrada: Cien años de poesía. Eds. Javier Beltrán and Cynthia Ramírez. Toluca: Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México, 2005: 87-98.
“El arte humanizado y la crítica cinematográfica de Jaime Torres Bodet y César Vallejo.” Anales de Literatura Hispanoamericana 32 (2003): 37-52. http://revistas.ucm.es/fll/02104547/articulos/ALHI0303110037A.PDF
"'Un dinamismo abrasador': La velocidad del cine mudo en la literatura iberoamericana de los años veinte y treinta." Revista Iberoamericana 199 (Apr-Jun, 2002): 417-440.
http://revista-iberoamericana.pitt.edu/ojs/index.php/Iberoamericana/article/download/5738/5884
"Pancho Villa at the Movies: Cinematic Techniques in the Works of Guzmán and Muñoz." In Latin American Literature and Mass Media. Ed. Debra Castillo and Edmundo Paz Soldán. New York: Garland Publishing, 2000: 41-56.
"A War of Words: Orality and Literacy in Azuela's Los de abajo." Romance Notes 38.2 (1998): 173-178.
"Vírgenes, madres y prostitutas: la figura femenina en El llano en llamas." Géneros 4.10 (October, 1996): 16-22.
"Montage in Hispanic Vanguard Prose, 1926-1934: Neurasthenia, Back Projection, and Chase Scenes." Hispanófila 118.4 (1996): 29-38.
"Documentaries of the Mexican Revolution: The Influence of Film on Martín Luis Guzmán's El águila y la serpiente," LA CHISPA '95: Selected Proceedings. (December, 1995): 143-152.
"Cinematic Techniques in Spanish Vanguard Prose, 1927-1932: Slow Motion and Zoom," West Virginia University Philological Papers 39 (1994): 132-37.
"El montaje en las tres novelas vanguardistas de Mariano Azuela: La Malhora, El desquite y La Luciérnaga," Dactylus 13 (1994): 86-98.
"Azorín y Francisco Ayala como novelistas cinematográficos: la descontextualización del primer plano," Dactylus 12 (1993): 14-24.
ENCYCLOPEDIA ARTICLES
"María Elvira Bermúdez." Latin American Mystery Writers: An A-to-Z Guide. Ed. Darrell B. Lockhart. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2004: 24-28.
"Amado Nervo." Latin American Science Fiction Writers: An A-to-Z Guide. Ed. Darrell B. Lockhart. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2004: 135-139.
"Mexico." Encyclopedia of the Novel . Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn, 1997: I: 697-707.
"Terra Nostra." Encyclopedia of the Novel . Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn, 1997: II:1322.
INVITED LECTURES
"Sherlock junior de Buster Keaton y otros detectives," guest lecture for "El Canon Holmes" a course at UNAM, Mexico City, Mexico, November 12, 2016.
"La Revolución Mexicana, el cine y la literatura: Villa, de Fuentes, Guzmán y Muñoz," lecture presented for Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem (IEL), Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP), Campinas, Brasil, August 10, 2010.
“Motorcycle Diaries; An Introduction to the Life of Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara and Walter Salles’s Diarios de motocicleta,” a talk presented at the Latino Cultural Center, Dallas, Texas, for the “Cine Refrescante” series, June 13, 2009.
"Simulacro y simulaciones: La artificialidad erótica del cine mudo en la narrativa de Noriega Hope, Torres Bodet y otros escritores mexicanos," paper presented for the colloquium "Medio siglo de imágenes sobre el amor: Fotografía y cine eróticos, 1900-1950," November 22-23, 2007, Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Morelos, Cuernavaca, Mexico.
“Living ‘la vida latina’ in 1920s Hollywood: Cultural Seductions and the Cinematic Novels of Julián S. González,” paper presented for a Symposium on Mexican film, March 10-12, 2006, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA.
"Un viaje inmóvil y una superficie profunda: El cine mudo en las obras de Gilberto Owen," paper presented for the colloquium “De sed en sed por el delirio: Los cien años de Gilberto Owen (1904-1952),” October 11-12, 2004, Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico.
"Un viaje inmóvil y una superficie profunda: El cine mudo en las obras de Gilberto Owen," paper presented for the colloquium "Primer Encuentro Luis Mario Schneider: 'Centenario del Nacimiento de Gilberto Owen Estrada,'" May 12-14, 2004, Centro Luis Mario Schneider, Malinalco, México, Mexico.
“Las muñecas de cera y las sirenas de celuloide: el fetichismo cinematográfico en la narrativa mexicana y española de los años 20 y 30,” paper presented for the colloquium “Imágenes y representaciones: México y España, siglos XIX y XX,” January 22-23, 2004, Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Morelos, Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico.
"Wax Dolls and Celluloid Sirens: Fetishism in Silent Film and Hispanic narrative of the twenties and Thirties," paper presented for Queens College Colloquium, "Cinematic Representations in Spanish and Latin American Literature," April 14, 2003, Queens College, CUNY, New York, New York.
"Memorias del 'celuloide'. Lo cinematográfico en la narrativa de Jaime Torres Bodet," paper presented at the international colloquium "Jaime Torres Bodet en su centenario, años contra el tiempo, 1902-1974," sponsored by the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México and the Instituto de Investigaciones Bibliográficas, May 28-31, 2002, Biblioteca Nacional, Mexico City, D.F.
"Wax Dolls and Celluloid Sirens: Cinematic Fetishism in Hispanic Narrative of the 20s and 30s," paper presented for the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Cambridge University, Cambridge, England, May 8, 2001.
"From Mannequins to Movie Stars: Cinematic Fetishism in Gómez de la Serna's El Incongruente," paper presented for the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, UCLA, February 13, 2001.
PRESENTATIONS
“Una flapper peruana en Madrid: Rosa Arciniega, el feminismo, el cine y la literatura, 1929-1936,” Primer Congreso Internacional “Acercamientos interartísticos: intertextualidad, intermedialidad, transmedialidad en el arte y la literatura en América Latina," Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Morelos, Cuernavaca, Mexico, November 14-18, 2016.
“La ciudad de celuloide“: Rosa Arciniega y la imagen feminista de Hollywood en la literatura hispana de los años veinte y treinta,” presented at the 54th International Congress of Americanists, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria, July 15-20, 2012.
"El silencio y la nueva mujer: El cine mudo en las obras de Rosa Chacel y Antonio Paso," paper presented at the I Congreso Internacional. Historia, Literatura y Arte en el Cine en español y en portugués, June 28-30, 2011, Universidad de Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain.
"Gender and Transnational Spectatorship in Masferrer’s Una vida en el cine (1922)," paper presented at LASA 2010, October 6-9, 2010, Toronto, Canada.
"La femme fatale de Hollywood en la narrativa cinematográfica de los años 20 y 30: González Tuñón, Palma y Quiroga," paper presented at JALLA Brasil 2010 IX Jornadas Andinas de Literatura Latinoamericana, August 2-6, 2010, Instituto de Letras, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil.
"Una belleza mortal: Edgar Allan Poe, Clemente Palma y Jean Epstein," paper presented at "Coloquio Internacional: Edgar Allan Poe en la literatura hispanoamericana," September 23-25, 2009, Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México, Finca "El Olvido," Malinalco, Mexico.
"Entre Eisenstein, H.G. Wells y dos muchedumbres. Dos momentos históricos en el cine en Locura y muerte de nadie de Benjamín Jarnés," paper presented at the "II Coloquio Internacional de Historia y Literatura," October 1-4, 2008, Universidad de Guanajuato, Guanajuato, Mexico.
“Importing Hollywood: The Impact of U.S. Silent Film on Latin American and Spanish Cultures,” a panel chaired at the Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference, April 2, 2005, London, England. “New Women and Lonely Men: Greta Garbo and Clara Bow in Spain and Latin America,” paper presented for this panel.
"Soñando con Dolores del Río: El cine mudo y el vanguardismo nacionalista de Jaime Torres Bodet," paper presented at the 36th Congress of the Southwest Council of Latin American Studies (SCOLAS), March 12-15, 2003, New Orleans, LA.
"Wax Dolls and Celluloid Speed: Silent Film as Fetish and Spectacle in Hispanic Narrative of the 20s and 30s," talk given at the "Tuesday Afternoon with…" series on November 6, 2001, at Austin College, Sherman, TX.
"Wax Dolls and Celluloid Sirens: Cinematic Fetishism in Hispanic Narrative of the 20s and 30s," paper presented at the Mid-America Conference on Hispanic Literature, October 4-6, 2001, The University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS.
"From Mannequins to Movie Stars: Cinematic Fetishism in Gómez de la Serna's El Incongruente," paper presented at De los pies de Ana Ozores a las botas de Leo Macías/Amanda Gris: Fetishism in Spanish Textual and Visual Culture 1850-2000, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, Scotland, April 6-7, 2001.
“El humor vertiginoso: Charlot y la velocidad cinematográfica en la narrativa vanguardista," paper presented at the 13 Congreso de la Asociación Alemana de Hispanistas, Universität Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany, March 8-11, 2001.
"Trains, Planes, Automobiles and Cinema: Converging Velocities and Latin American Fiction of the Twenties and Thirties," paper presented at the 10th Annual University of New Mexico Conference on Ibero-American Culture and Society, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, February 15-17, 2001.
“Writing at the Speed of Film: Temporal Cinematic Techniques in the Works of Gómez de la Serna, Benjamín Jarnés, and Azorín,” paper presented at the Second Biennial Conference on Iberian/Iberian-American Literatures, Florida International University, Miami, Florida, October 21-23, 1999.
“The Ties that Bind: Liberation and Family Systems in Marta Lynch's La señora Ordóñez,” paper presented at the Laura Blanche Jackson Conference on the Politics of the Written Word in the Americas, Baylor University, Waco, Texas, April 8-9, 1999.
“Untold Stories of the Mexican Revolution: Subversive Strategies in the Novels of Ignacio Solares and Angeles Mastretta,” paper presented at the Latin American Studies Association, The Palmer House Hilton Hotel, Chicago, Illinois, September 24-26, 1998.
"Film as a Means of Metafiction: Narrative Realities in the Works of Carlos Fuentes," paper presented at the Rocky Mountain Council on Latin American Studies, The University of Montana, Missoula, MT, April 23-25, 1998.
"Detective Fiction Across Cultural Boundaries: María Elvira Bermúdez and the (Re)invention of the Mexican Whodunit," paper presented at the Louisiana Conference on Hispanic Languages and Literatures: LA CHISPA, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, February 19-21, 1998.
"La presencia del cine en la narrativa mexicana del siglo XX," a presentation of my book, De la pantalla al texto: La influencia del cine en la narrativa mexicana del siglo XX. México: UNAM, 1996. The presentation took place at the annual book fair of the university press of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Mexico City, February 20-24, 1997.
"La relación cine-literatura," two guest lectures presented for the course "El cine: los medios y la literatura en América Latina," Centro de Educación Continua de la Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, UNAM, Mexico City, October 24-25, 1996.
"Catalina's Boleros, or, Mastretta's Arráncame la vida as Postmodern Love Song," paper presented at the 12th Annual Mid-America Conference on Hispanic Literature, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, October 12-15, 1995.
"La evolución de la imagen capitalina en cuatro novelas de Mariano Azuela: 1918-1941," paper presented at the V Congreso de Mexicanistas, la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, D.F., October 10, 1995.
"A War of Words: Orality and Literacy in Azuela's Los de abajo," paper presented at the 48th Annual Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, April 20-22, 1995.
"Documentaries of the Mexican Revolution, Pancho Villa, and the Influence of Film on Martín Luis Guzmán's El águila y la serpiente," paper presented at the Louisiana Conference on Hispanic Languages and Literatures: LA CHISPA, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA March 2-5, 1995.
"'Sólo me llegaban rumores': History as Feminist Metafiction in Mastretta's Arráncame la vida," paper presented at the 28th Annual Comparative Literature Symposium: "Latin American Women Writers: Canons, Traditions, Revisions," Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, January 26-28, 1995.
"Vírgenes, madres y prostitutas: la figura femenina en El llano en llamas," paper presented at the Eleventh Annual Mid-America Conference on Hispanic Literatures, The University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, September 8-10, 1994.
"Como texto para pantalla: Laura Esquivel y la Hollywoodización de la novela mexicana," paper presented at the 27th Annual Meeting of the Southwest Council of Latin American Studies (SCOLAS), Guadalajara, Jalisco, México, March 16-18, 1994.
"La historia como una metaficción: los códigos dobles y el posmodernismo en Beatus Ille de Antonio Muñoz Molina," paper presented at the 109th Annual Convention of the Modern Language Association, Toronto, Ontario, December 27-30, 1993.
"Cinematic Techniques and Narratological Implications in the Works of Azuela, Villaurrutia and Rulfo: Slow Motion, Montage and Zoom," paper presented at the Tenth Annual Mid-America Conference on Hispanic Literatures, Washington University, St. Louis, MO, October 14-16, 1993.
"¿Qué país es éste? Estados Unidos y los gringos vistos por escritores mexicanos de los siglos XIX y XX," paper presented at the XII Simposium de la División de Administración y Ciencias Sociales, Universidad Mexicana del Noreste, Monterrey, Nuevo León, April 14-16, 1993.
"Dependencia y libertad en el Porfiriato: influencias contradictorias en Suprema ley y Santa de Federico Gamboa," paper presented at the Fourth Binational Conference of Mexicanists: La literatura del Porfiriato, at The University of Texas at Austin, February 24-27, 1993.
"Azorín and Ayala as Cinematic Novelists: Close-up and Jakobson's Synecdoche," paper presented at the III UT Colloquium on Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literatures and Romance Linguistics at The University of Texas-Austin, October 2-3, 1992.
"Cinematic Techniques in Spanish Vanguard Prose, 1927-1932: Slow Motion, Fast-Forward and Zoom," paper presented at the 16th Annual Colloquium on Literature and Film: The Context of Modernism, 1880-1930 at West Virginia University, September 19-21, 1991.
REVIEWS
Rev. of "Making Cinelandia:
American Films and Mexican Film Culture Before the Golden Age by Laura
Isabel Serna." The Americas 72.2 (2015): 340-341. Project MUSE.
Web. 11 Jan. 2016. <https://muse.jhu.edu/>.
https://muse.jhu.edu/journals/the_americas/v072/72.2.duffey.html
Rev. of Based on a True Story: Latin American History at the Movies. Ed. Donald F. Stevens. Hispania (May, 1998): 566-567. http://www.jstor.org/stable/345666
Rev. of Antiheroes: Mexico and Its Detective Novel. By Ilan Stavans. Choice (October, 1997).
Rev. of The Other Mirror: Women's Narrative in Mexico, 1980-1995. Ed. Kristine Ibsen. Choice (May, 1997).
Rev. of Conquest of the New Word. Experimental Fiction and Translation in the Americas. By Johnny Payne. Chasqui 25.2 (December 1996): 139-141. http://www.jstor.org/stable/29741311
Rev. of Sin rumbo: (Estudio) by Eugenio Cambaceres. Ed. Rita Gnutzmann. Chasqui 24.2 (December 1995): 128-130. http://www.jstor.org/stable/29741227
Rev. of Rubén Darío, poeta trágico (una nueva visión) by Alberto Acereda and La poética de Rubén Darío. Crisis post-romántica y modelos modernistas by Alberto Julián Pérez. Hispania 78.1 (March 1995): 66-67. http://www.jstor.org/stable/345204
Rev. of Ensayos sencillos: (en torno a la poesía de José Martí) by Leopoldo Barroso and El pensamiento social de José Martí: ideología y cuestión obrera by Juan E. Mestas. Hispania 77.4 (December 1994): 819-820. http://www.jstor.org/stable/345717
Rev. of Voces para un retrato. Ensayos sobre Alfonso Reyes, ed. Víctor Díaz Arciniega. Chasqui 23.1 (1994): 113-14. http://www.jstor.org/stable/29741077
REFEREE FOR:
Modern Philology, PMLA, ConNotas: Revista de Critica y Teoria Literarias, Routledge Press, Yale University Press, and Thomson-Heinle