José Castro-Urioste, Ph.D.
Professor of Spanish
Select Publications
Che cosa hai fatto?: Le Lettera: Florencia, Italy, 2020. Introduction by Martha Canfield. Italian translation of my novel ¿And what have you done? by Martha Canfield and Lina
Lipari.
Hechizo. Lima: Hipocampo Editores, 2015. (collection of short stories). The newspaper El Comercio (Lima, Peru) considered Hechizo one of the best books in the category of
short stories published in Peru in 2015.
¿Y tú qué has hecho? Second edition. Lima: SM Ediciones, 2011. This novel is a required reading for high school students in Peru.
Previous Roles
- 2016 – present Professor. Purdue Northwest University.
- 2007- 2016 Professor. Purdue University Calumet.
- 1998 – 2007 Associate Professor, Purdue University Calumet
- 1994 – 1998 Assistant Professor, Concordia College. Moorhead, Minnesota.
- 1994 – 1999 Instructor, Saint Lawrence University. Canton, New York.
Jose Castro-Urioste, professor and playwright, debuts Entre nos in Buenos Aires
Purdue University Northwest (PNW) faculty member José Castro-Urioste, Professor of Spanish, was recently featured in the Chicago Latino Theater Alliance (CLATA) for the debut of his play, “Entre nos,” in Buenos Aires.
Contact
(219) 989-2019
Office Location:
Hammond, CLO 282
Education
- Ph.D. in Latin American Literature, University of Pittsburgh.
- M.A. in Latin American Literature, University of Pittsburgh.
- B.A. in Literature, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima, Peru.
Credentials, Accreditations & Awards
- Grant in collaboration with Teatro Chaski, Buenos Aires. Instituto Nacional de Teatro de Argentina. 2021. The purpose of the grant is to produce my play “Ceviche en Pittsburgh” the
following year. - Outstanding Research Award. Purdue Northwest University. 2016.
- Finalist with the novel Historias de arena at literary contest organized by El Comercio. Lima, 2009.
- Finalist with the novel Historias de arena at the literary contest Premio de novela La Nación Editorial Sudamericana. The jury was: Carlos Fuentes, Tomás Eloy Martínez, and Griselda
Gambaro. Buenos Aires, 2006. - Concordia College, nominated to the Flaat Distinguished Scholarship Award, 1997.
- Finalist in the literary contest Letras de oro with a book of short stories titled Desnudos a medianoche, 1996.
- Finalist in the literary contest Letras de oro with a play Trecho de mudez, 1993.
- University of Pittsburgh. Ph.D. Preliminary Examination. Honors in the major area of Latin American Literature, 1990.