Revista Hispánica Moderna

Revista Hispánica Moderna
Title	Revista Hispánica Moderna
Discipline	Hispanic studies, Latin American studies, Iberian studies
Language	Spanish, English
Publisher	Modern Language Association
Country	United States
Frequency	Semiannual
History	1934–present
Issn	0034-9593

Revista Hispánica Moderna is a peer-reviewed academic journal dedicated to the study of Spanish, Portuguese, and Latin American literatures and cultures. Founded in the early 20th century, it publishes scholarly articles, critical essays, and book reviews engaging with historical and contemporary texts and contexts. The journal appears semiannually and is associated with major academic institutions and professional associations in Hispanic and Iberian studies.

History

The journal was established in 1934 amid scholarly currents linked to figures such as Miguel de Unamuno, José Ortega y Gasset, Juan Ramón Jiménez, Federico García Lorca, and institutions including Columbia University, Harvard University, Princeton University, Yale University, and University of California, Berkeley. Early editorial networks connected with periodicals like Revista de Occidente, La Gaceta Literaria, Sur (magazine), Anales de la Literatura Española, and scholars such as Américo Castro, Rafael Lapesa, Julio Cejador y Frauca, Antonio Machado, and Ramón Menéndez Pidal. During the Spanish Civil War and Second World War, debates engaged names like Manuel Azaña, Miguel Hernández, Pablo Neruda, Gabriela Mistral, and institutions including Universidad Complutense de Madrid and Universidad de Salamanca. In subsequent decades the journal reflected scholarly shifts influenced by critics and theorists such as Roland Barthes, Mikhail Bakhtin, Jacques Derrida, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, and Pierre Bourdieu, as well as Latin American intellectuals like Jorge Luis Borges, Octavio Paz, Carlos Fuentes, Mario Vargas Llosa, and Severo Sarduy.

Scope and Content

The journal covers literary analysis of authors including Miguel de Cervantes, Lope de Vega, Calderón de la Barca, Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, Benito Pérez Galdós, Clarín (Leopoldo Alas), Emilia Pardo Bazán, Mariano José de Larra, Rosalía de Castro, León Tolstoy (in comparative pieces), and modernists such as Rubén Darío, Leopoldo Lugones, Ruben Dario (sic debates), José Martí, Ricardo Palma, Rómulo Gallegos, Alejo Carpentier, Juan Rulfo, Isabel Allende, Laura Esquivel, and César Vallejo. Interdisciplinary work engages with film and visual culture referencing filmmakers and movements like Luis Buñuel, Carlos Saura, Pedro Almodóvar, Agnès Varda, Federico Fellini, Alejandro Jodorowsky, and institutions such as Cannes Film Festival, Venice Film Festival, and Berlin International Film Festival. Thematic issues have addressed colonial studies with reference to figures like Hernán Cortés, Fray Bartolomé de las Casas, Simón Bolívar, José de San Martín, and events including the War of the Spanish Succession, Peninsular War, Latin American wars of independence, and cultural movements like Modernismo, Generación del 98, Generation of '27, Boom, Negrismo, Indigenismo, and Postcolonialism. Comparative and theoretical essays draw on thinkers such as Mikhail Bakhtin, Michel Foucault, Antonio Gramsci, Homi K. Bhabha, Stuart Hall, Edward Said, Nancy Fraser, Judith Butler, and Julia Kristeva.

Editorial and Publication Details

The journal is edited by committees drawn from universities such as Columbia University, University of Pennsylvania, Johns Hopkins University, Cornell University, University of Michigan, Stanford University, and University of Texas at Austin. Past and present editors have included scholars associated with departments at New York University, University of Chicago, Brown University, Duke University, University of California, Los Angeles, and Washington University in St. Louis. It is published by the Modern Language Association and distributed through academic channels that reach libraries like the Library of Congress, British Library, Biblioteca Nacional de España, and repositories including JSTOR, Project MUSE, and university presses such as Cambridge University Press and Oxford University Press. Submission guidelines follow peer-review standards common to journals overseen by associations like the American Council of Learned Societies and Modern Language Association committees.

Abstracting and Indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in major bibliographic services and databases including MLA International Bibliography, Scopus, Web of Science, JSTOR, Project MUSE, EBSCOhost, ProQuest, HathiTrust, and catalogues of research libraries such as WorldCat. Citation tracking and impact assessment reference systems like Google Scholar, CrossRef, Clarivate, and indexing standards used by organizations such as the Council of Editors of Learned Journals inform visibility within academic networks. The journal’s metadata appears in discovery services run by entities including OCLC, EBSCO Information Services, and ProQuest LLC.

Notable Contributors and Articles

Contributors have included eminent scholars and writers such as José Donoso, Severo Sarduy, Nicolás Guillén, Rosario Castellanos, Silvina Ocampo, Marta Traba, Sylvia Molloy, Octavio Paz, Alberto Moreiras, Roberto González Echevarría, Harold Bloom, Julia Kristeva, Ilan Stavans, Edmundo O'Gorman, Néstor García Canclini, Walter Mignolo, Enrique Krauze, Héctor Aguilar Camín, Jean Franco, Pedro Salinas, Jorge Guillén, Luis Cernuda, Camilo José Cela, Mario Benedetti, Antonio Di Benedetto, Carmen Laforet, and critics like Luis Gómez-Basauri (examples of regional scholarship). Influential articles have engaged canonical texts such as Don Quixote, La Celestina, Fuenteovejuna, Bodas de sangre, La Regenta, Pedro Páramo, The Death of Artemio Cruz, One Hundred Years of Solitude, The Aleph, and comparative pieces on translations and reception involving William Shakespeare, Gustave Flaubert, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Marcel Proust, and James Joyce.

Awards and Recognition

The journal has been recognized by academic bodies and award programs, receiving citations and mentions from organizations such as the Modern Language Association, American Historical Association (for interdisciplinary contributions), American Philosophical Society (for scholarship dissemination), and regional cultural institutions including the Instituto Cervantes, Real Academia Española, Biblioteca Nacional de España, and national academies in Latin American countries like Academia Mexicana de la Lengua. Individual articles and contributors have been finalists or recipients of prizes such as the National Endowment for the Humanities research grants, Guggenheim Fellowship, Ford Foundation fellowships, Prince of Asturias Awards (now Princess of Asturias Awards), and national literary prizes like the Premio Cervantes, Premio Nacional de las Letras Españolas, Premio Nacional de Literatura (Chile), and Premio Gabriel García Márquez de Periodismo.

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