Hall, Kenneth E. 1954-

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Hall, Kenneth E. 1954-
(Kenneth Estes Hall)


PERSONAL:

Born 1954. Education: Furman University, B.A., 1975; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, M.A., 1978; University of Arizona, Ph.D., 1986.

ADDRESSES:

Home—1005 Grace Dr., Johnson City, TN 37604. Office—Department of Foreign Languages, East Tennessee State University, Box 70312, Johnson City, TN 37614-0312; fax: 423-439-4448. E-mail—[email protected]; kehallchartertn.net.

CAREER:

Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC, visiting assistant professor of Spanish, 1986-88; University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, assistant professor, 1988-92, associate professor, 1992-97, professor of Spanish, 1997-99; East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, professor of Spanish and chair of department of foreign languages, 1999—. Lecturer at other colleges and universities, including Florida State University, Dana College, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL, Creighton University, and Trent University.

MEMBER:

Phi Beta Kappa (chapter president, 1991-92), Sigma Delta Pi, Phi Sigma Iota.

WRITINGS:


Guillermo Cabrera Infante and the Cinema, Juan de la Cuesta Hispanic Monographs (Newark, DE), 1989.

(Translator, with author) Guillermo Cabrera Infante, A Twentieth Century Job, Faber & Faber (London, England), 1991.

(Translator, with author) Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Mea Cuba, Farrar, Straus (New York, NY), 1994.

John Woo: The Films, McFarland and Co. (Jefferson, NC), 1999.

Stonewall Jackson and Religious Faith in Military Command, McFarland and Co. (Jefferson, NC), 2005.

Contributor to books, including Guillermo Cabrera Infante: Assays, Essays, and Other Arts, edited by Ardis L. Nelson, Twayne (New York, NY), 1999; and to reference works such as Encyclopedia of World Literature in the Twentieth Century, Volume 5, St. James Press (Detroit, MI), 4th edition, 1998; and Encyclopedia of Chinese Film, edited by Yingjin Zhang and Zhiwei Xiao, Routledge (New York, NY), 1998. Contributor of articles and reviews to periodicals, including World Literature Today, Studies in the Western, Asian Cinema, Classical and Modern Literature, Literature/Film Quarterly, Confluencia, Biography, and Hispanófila.

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