Bruce Willis
Professor
Department of Language and Literature
The University of Tulsa
United States of America
Biography
Dr. Willis completed his A.B. at the College of William and Mary, including a semester at the Universidad de las Américas in Cholula, Puebla, Mexico. He received his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Virginia. He assumed his first faculty appointment at the University of South Alabama, and in 2002 he began work at the University of Tulsa. He has traveled in Mexico, Brazil, Chile, Spain, the United Kingdom and the Dominican Republic. Dr. Willis currently teaches Spanish American literatures and cultures (in Spanish) and Brazilian literature and culture (in English). His published materials include the monographs Body Articulations: Corporeality in Early Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature and Aesthetics of Equilibrium: The Vanguard Poetics of Vicente Huidobro and Mário de Andrade; articles in Brasil/Brazil, Chasqui, Gestos, Hispania, Hispanic Issues On Line, Hispanófila, Luso-Brazilian Review, and South Atlantic Review; edited chapters, translations, and creative writing. Presently he is researching iconography in the works of contemporary Mexican and Mexican-American writers, singer-songwriters, and visual artists.
Research Interest
Contemporary Literature, Music and Art in Greater Mexico.
