Contact Information

Office: 3160 JFSB

Phone: 422-1726

E-mail: russell_cluff@byu.edu

Dr. Russell M. Cluff, Professor of Spanish, was born and raised in Mexico and has taught for the universities of Minnesota, Notre Dame, Stephen F. Austin State University and Brigham Young University. His area of specialty is Latin American prose narrative with an emphasis on recent Mexican fiction, mainly the short story. He has published over twenty articles on Latin American literature and has published the following books: Panorama crítico-bibliográfico del cuento mexicano (1950-1995). Tlaxcala: Universidad Autónoma de Tlaxcala, 1997; Diccionario bio-bibliográfico de escritores de México (1920-1970), coautor: Josefina Lara Valdez. Mexico: Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes, 1995; Siete acercamientos al relato mexicano actual, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) and El Gobierno del Estado de Querétaro, 1987.

In conjuction with Professor L. Howard Quackenbush he has translated and published the following books: Beatle Dreams and Other Stories por Guillermo Samperio. Latin American Literary Review Press, 1994; Schizotext and Other Poems/Esquizotexto y otros poemas by Gonzalo Rojas. Peter Lang Publishing Inc., New York, 1988 (135 pp.).

His editions are the following: Cuento mexicano moderno. Edition of the Mexican short story of the twentieth century. Co-editor with Alfredo Pavón, Luis Arturo Ramos, and Guillermo Samperio. Mexico: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Universidad Veracruzana, and Editorial Aldus, 2000; Crónicas de Altocerro. Edition of short story collection by Virgilio Díaz Grullón. Contains a critical epilogue. Mexico: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), 1996.

As an instructor, Prof. Cluff is passionate about Latin American culture in all its guises: literary, graphic and plastic arts, music, as well as in its culture with a small "c." His philosophy is that there is no reason to learn another language (re-codify everything one knows) unless the culture behind that language is appreciated and loved by the language learner.

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