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Research interests
• Philology
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Textual Criticism
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Literary Analysis
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Literary Criticism
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Studies on Medieval Literature
Profile
Professor Alejandro Higashi received his Ph.D. degree in Hispanic Literature from El Colegio de México. He is a Professor at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (UAM) Iztapalapa Campus.
He has published several works on Mexican literature in specialized journals such as Nueva Revista de Filología Hispánica (El Colegio de México), Literatura Mexicana (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México), Signos Lingüísticos y Literarios (Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana), Incipit (Seminario de Edición y Crítica Textual, Buenos Aires), Actual (Universidad de Mérida, Venezuela), La Palabra y el Hombre (Xalapa). And also on medieval Latin literature, medieval vernacular and aurisecular in journals such as Revista de Poética Medieval (University of Alcalá), Revista de Literatura Medieval (University of Alcalá), Olivar. Revista de Literatura y Cultura Españolas (Universidad Nacional de La Plata), Medievalia (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México), E-spania, Revue Électronique d'études Hispaniques Médiévales (Université Paris-Sorbonne), Lemir (Universitat de Valencia), Boletín de la Real Academia Española de la Lengua and Anuario Calderoniano (Universidad de Navarra).
He has published the following books: Xalapa (1995), a children's version in octosyllables of the Cantar de mio Cid (2008), Perfiles para una ecdotica nacional. Textual criticism of Mexican works. Siglos XIX y XX (2013), the introduction and notes to the book La lira y el laurel. Poesía latina selecta de Francesco Petrarca, bilingual edition, selection, verse translation and notes by Alicia de Colombí-Monguió (2013), PM / XXI / 360, crematística y estética de la poesía mexicana contemporánea en la era de la tradición de la ruptura (2015), the Romancero e historia del muy valeroso cavallero el Cid Ruy Diaz de Bivar, en lenguaje antiguo, compiled by Juan de Escobar (2017), the Romancero de Lorenzo de Sepúlveda (2018) and Leer para aprender, discurso de ingreso a la Academia Mexicana de la Lengua, with the response of José Pascual Buxó (2018).
He has been a member of the Nacional Reasercher System, Level III, since 2001, and of the Seminario de Investigación en Poesía Mexicana Contemporánea since 2012. In 2012, he was a beneficiary of the Rosario Castellanos Chair, funded by the Mexican Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and a fellow of the Scholarships for Young Creators program of the Veracruz Institute of Culture (1993-1994).
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