Jaime Ferrán, Life and Work

Abstract

The editors are thrilled to present this special issue of Symposium in honor of celebrated poet and long-time Syracuse University professor, Jaime Ferrán. This year we celebrate the 75^th anniversary of the journal and the 76th anniversary of the Centro de Estudios Hispánicos, vibrant legacies still thriving to this day in the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics at Syracuse University. The articles and testimonies that comprise this special issue point to the major influence of Ferrán’s poetry on mid-century Spanish letters as well as his spirit of generosity that lives in his body of work and life experience.

Keywords:

• Jaime Ferrán
• biography
• Twentieth-Century Spanish poetry
• Hispanic Studies
• Generación de los Cincuenta
• Generation of the 1950s

Notes

1 A full list of titles appears at the end of this biography.

2 For more information on the life and work of Jaime Ferrán, please see the Spanish Wikipedia page for Jaume Ferran here https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaume_Ferran. Jaume Ferran is the Catalan name under which Ferrán’s publications in Catalan are written. For those interested in more information about Ferrán’s life and work, a link can be found at the bottom of the Wikipedia page to the 2019 documentary, available online, by Catalan filmmaker and documentarian Xavier Juncosa entitled Decàleg Ferran. Vida i poesia de Jaume Ferran (with Subtitles in Castilian). The documentary can be found directly here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffkzGrULk6w A video of the performance of L’espill encantat can be accessed here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtqoQveJi9Y.

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Notes on contributors

Ofelia Ferrán

Ofelia Ferrán is the daughter of Jaime Ferrán. She is Associate Professor of Contemporary Iberian Cultural Studies in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese Studies at the University of Minnesota. She has published on issues related to memory and trauma in contemporary Spanish literature and culture, feminist studies and women’s literature, as well the literature and culture of exile after the Spanish Civil War. She is the author of Working Through Memory: Writing and Remembrance in Contemporary Spanish Narrative and coeditor of Legacies of Violence in Contemporary Spain: Exhuming the Past, Understanding the Present, A Critical Companion to Jorge Semprún: Buchenwald, Before and After, and Women’s Narrative and Film in Twentieth-Century Spain: A World of Difference(s). She is currently working on a book exploring the representations of the Spanish Civil War in the oeuvre of Catalan multimedia artist Francesc Torres and is the co-organizer, at the University of Minnesota, of the interdisciplinary research project Memory, Trauma, and Human Rights at the Crossroads of Art and Science.

Jaime M. Ferrán

Jaime María Ferrán is the son of Jaime Ferrán. He is Associate Professor of Spanish in the Department of English and Modern Languages at Clark Atlanta University (Atlanta, Georgia) and has a Ph.D. in Spanish literature from the University of North Carolina (2003). His area of specialization is Spanish 20^th century poetry and has published the following books: Sociedad y ciudad en la poesía de José Agustín Goytisolo (2006) and La ruptura posmoderna. Esteticismo y culturalismo en los poetas novísimos españoles (2017). His articles have appeared in scholarly journals such as Romance Notes, Anales de la literatura española contemporánea, Salina (revista de lletres) and Cincinnati Romance Review. His books of poetry are Poemas del mar en Carolina del Norte (2004), Media luna sobre Memphis (2019), and Postal (abrazos desde Miami) (2021).