Guillermo E. Hernández
Professor
(310) 825-3903
email: gmo@ucla.edu, gmo@csrc.ucla.edu, guillerm@humnet.ucla.edu

Education
Ph.D. Comparative Literature, University of California, Berkeley, 1982.
M.A. Comparative Literature, University of California, Berkeley, 1976
B.A. Comparative Literature, University of California, Berkeley, 1971

Publications
  • Corridos Sin Fronteras: A New World Ballad Tradition. Traveling Exhibit. Smithsonian Insitution Traveling Exhibiton Service (SITES) and Smithsonian Center for Latino Initiatives. Scheduled to open in Washington D.C. at the Smithsonian Museum of Arts and Industry on February 2, 2002 and to travel throughout the United States until July 24, 2005.
  • "What is a Corrido?: Thematic Representation and Narrative Discourse" in Studies in Latin American Popular Culture 18 (1999).
  • Corridos sin Fronteras: The Art of a Ballad Tradition in Mexico and the U.S. Exhibition at the UCLA-Fowler Museum of Cultural History. June 7, 1998, through February 14, 1999.
  • El Corrido. Edited with Luis Leal. Corrido issue dedicated to Vicente T. Mendoza. Aztlan: Journal of Chicano Studies. 22.1 Spring (1997).
  • "El corrido ayer y hoy, nuevas notas para su estudio." Entre la magia y la historia. Comp. Manuel Valenzuela. Tijuana: El Colegio de la Frontera Norte, 1992.
  • Chicano Satire: A Study in Literary Culture. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1991.
  • "El arte satírico de Ibn Quzman: Zéjel No. 20." Actas del Congreso Romancero-Cancionero. Ed. Enrique Rodríguez Cepeda. Madrid: Gredos, 1991.
  • "Las características cómicas del pocho y del pachuco." Nuevo Texto Crítico 2.3 (1989): 171-181.
  • "Jarcha Antecedents in Latin Inscriptions." Hispanic Review 57.2 (1989): 189-202.
  • "La Punitiva: El corrido norteño y la tradición oral, fonográfica e impresa." Heterofonía 29.3 (1986): 46-64.
  • "El México de fuera: Notas para su historia cultural." Cuadernos Americanos marzo-abril 1985: 101-119. Rpt. in Crítica 3 (1986): 60-80.
  • "From Traditional to Popular Culture: Early Commercial Phonographic Recordings and the Transmission of Texts." El Mirlo, Newsletter of the Chicano Studies Research Center, UCLA, 10.3 (1983): 1+.
  • "On The Theoretical Bases of Chicano Literature." De Colores: Journal of Chicano Expression and Thought, Special Issue on Contemporary Chicano Literary Criticism, 5.1-2 (1980): 5-18.
  • Canciones de la Raza: Songs of the Chicano Experience. Berkeley: El Fuego de Aztlán, 1978.

Honors and Awards
  • Board Member. Tigres del Norte Foundation. June 2000-.
  • Member. Advisory Committee to the UCLA Oral History Project. 1999-
  • Board Member. Arhoolie Foundation. 1998-present
  • Keynote Speaker. Foro de Análisis. Colegio de la Frontera Norte. Matamoros, Tamaulipas. May 4, 1996.
  • Board Member. National Committe on Latino Leadership. 1996-present.
  • Outstanding Academic Book. Awarded to Chicano Satire: A Study in Literary Culture by Choice: Books for Libraries. Association of College and Research Libraries. 1992.
  • Keynote Speaker. VIII Jornadas Sobre la Identidad de la Cultura Norestense. Consejo Cultural de Nuevo León. Monterrey, Nuevo León, November 27, 1992.
  • Grantee. Del Amo Foundation Fellowship award for 1989-1990.
  • Grantee. Institute of American Cultures Research award for 1988-89.
  • Medalla al Mérito Histórico "Capitán Alonso de León." Awarded in the International Category by the Sociedad Nuevoleonesa de Historia, Geografía y Estadística. Monterrey, Nuevo León, México, 1986.
  • Member. Delegate Assembly of the Modern Language Association, 1985-86.
  • Grantee. Research Committee Award, UCLA Academic Senate, 1982-1992.

Research Interests
  • I am a comparatist by training and vocation. My literary interests are primarily on the cultural and historical record from various periods and geographic areas, primarily in the Speaking world but not limited to it.

    My expertise is on the relations between literary and popular (traditions) genres, particularly on humor (satire, the picaresque), the ballad (corridos), and film (Mexican). I enjoy the study of Chicano popular texts as they pertain to its formative stages and the movement, Mexican literary narratives of the revolution and beyond, and all aspects relating to popular linguistic expression.

    In addition to several articles, PowerPoint presentations, and conferences in preparation, I am presently writing a book on the corrido which I expect to publish sometime in 2003.