Thomas Ward, Ph.D.

Professor Emeritus
Thomas Ward

Professor Emeritus of Spanish

Education

  • University of Connecticut, M.A., Ph.D. 

Courses Taught

  • SN 104: Intermediate Spanish II
  • SN 201D: Composition and Conversation 
  • SN 203D: Introduction to Reading Literature
  • ML320D: Liberation Theology from its Origins
  • ML362D: The Early Latino Experience in the United States
  • SN 306D: Literatura y política de la identidad en el Perú
  • SN 380: El modernismo
  • SN 370D: La novela latinoamericana del siglo XIX
  • SN 390D: Crónicas de conquista, resistencia y transculturación

Publications

Digital Humanities

González Prada website 

Books

book cover for Thomas Ward's 2026 bookInca Garcilaso de la Vega: Literary Genealogies of a Colonial Intellectual in Nineteenth Century Peru

Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2026. 

Buscando la nación peruana

2nd edition. Lima: Editorial Cátedra Vallejo/ Facultad de Letras, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, 2022.

'Coloniality and the Rise of Liberation Thinking' book jacketColoniality and the Rise of Liberation Thinking

Leeds/Amsterdam: Arc Humanities Press/Amsterdam University Press, 2021

Roque Moreno book cover with portraitGonzalez de Fanning, Teresa. Roque Moreno: Novela historica

Ed. Thomas Ward. Doral: Stockcero, 2019

The cover of Dr. Ward's book The Formation of Latin American Nations has a mask on a red and fabric background.The Formation of Latin American Nations: From Late Antiquity to Early Modernity

Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2018.

Book cover of Ward book Gonzalez Prada with a picture of the writer with a huge fat mustache.

Manuel González Prada para adolescentes

Ed. Gladys Flores Heredia & Thomas Ward. Lima:Editorial Cátedra Vallejo, 2018.

homenaje coverHomenaje a Eugenio Chang-Rodriguez

Ed. Thomas Ward and Richard Cacchione Amendola. Lima: Universidad Ricardo Palma, 2017.

cover of book decolonizing indigeneity by tom wardDecolonizing Indigeneity: New Approaches to Latin American Literature

Lanham/London: Lexington Books (Rowman & Littlefield), 2017.

book cover for china pop translated by thomas wardDomingo de Ramos's China Pop

Trans. Thomas Ward. Indiana: Cardboard House Press, 2015. 

'El porvenir nos debe una victoria' book coverEl porvenir nos debe una victoria": la insólita modernidad de Manuel González Prada

Ed. Thomas Ward. Lima: Red para el Desarrollo de las Ciencias Sociales en el Perú, 2010.

Buscando la nacion peruana book coverBuscando la nación peruana

Lima: Editorial Horizonte, Facultad de Ciencias Socialesde la Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos | Baltimore: Loyola University Maryland, 2009.

La rosa muerta book coverCáceres, Aurora. La rosa muerta

Ed. Thomas Ward. Buenos Aires: Stockcero, 2007.

'La resistencia cultural: la nación en el ensayo de las Américas' book coverLa resistencia cultural: la nación en el ensayo de las Américas

Lima: Universidad Ricardo Palma, 2004.

'La teoría literaria' book coverLa teoría literaria: Romanticismo, krausismo y modernismo ante la 'globalización' industrial

University, MS: The University of Mississippi, Romance Monographs, 2004.

 'La anarquía inmanentista de Manuel González Prada' book cover revised editionLa anarquía inmanentista de Manuel González Prada

Edición revisada.

Lima: Universidad Ricardo Palma | Editorial Horizonte, 2001.

'Pumping Images' book coverPumping Images (1959-1980)

London: Minerva Press, 2000.

'La anarquía inmanentista de Manuel González Prada' book coverLa anarquía inmanentista de Manuel González Prada

Primera edición.

New York: Peter Lang, 1998.

Articles

Areas of Specialization

  • Colonial and 19th-Century Latin American Literature and Culture
  • Latin American and Latino Studies
  • Peruvian Literature

Honors and Awards

  • Nachbahr Award, Center for the Humanities, Loyola University Maryland,  March 28, 2018. Address given, September 29, 2018.
  • Doctor Honoris Causa, Universidad Ricardo Palma, Lima, Peru. December 28, 2017. Celebratory lecture, June 13, 2018.
  • Corresponding Academic, Peruvian Academy of Language. Lima, Peru. Named 2017. 
  • Named “Honorary Professor.” Universidad Ricardo Palma, Lima, Peru, August 19, 2013.
  • The 2012 Faculty Award for Excellence in Engaged Scholarship, Deans Symposium, Loyola University Maryland, March 23, 2012.
  • Named Honorary Member, Alpha Sigma Nu, Jesuit Honor Society, Loyola University Chapter, Sunday, April 3, 2011.
  • The Harry W. Rodgers, III Distinguished Teacher of the Year Award, Loyola University Maryland, March 25, 2011.
  • Socio Adherente, Instituto de Altos Estudios José Carlos Mariátegui, Lima, Peru. Named June, 2010.
  • Unsung Hero Award. Student Choice Awards, Loyola College, April 2008.
  • Faculty Fellow. Seminar on Service-Learning and Engaged Scholarship. Center for Community Service and Justice, Loyola College, Summer 2006.
  • Summer Research Fellowship. The Carolina and Duke Consortium in Latin American and Caribbean Studies/Title VI: Department of Education. Chapel Hill and Durham, North Carolina, August 2005.
  • Miembro Correspondiente que reside en el extranjero, Instituto Ricardo Palma, Universidad Ricardo Palma. Lima, Peru, Ceremony, July 4, 2005.
  • Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers, 2002, 2005, 2006.
  • Harold Eugene Davis Prize for Best Article (2002). Mid-Atlantic Council for Latin American Studies (MACLAS): “Expanding Ethnicity in Sixteenth-Century Anahuac.”
  • Named to Speaker’s Bureau. Maryland Humanities Council. Baltimore, Maryland, 1998-1999; 2000-2001.
  • Charles Katzman Award for Non-Fiction. Amelia Publications. Bakersfield, California, Summer 1988.

Service Activities, Memberships in Academic Societies

Service: College Activities (Representative assignments)

  • Undergraduate Curriculum Committee (2014-2017)
  • Chair of the Loyola Department of Modern Languages and Literatures (2011-2013)
  • Associate Chair of the Loyola Department of Modern Languages and Literatures (December 2010- June 2011)
  • Director of the Latin American and Latino Studies program at Loyola (2007-present)

Memberships in Academic Societies

  • AIP, Asociación Internacional de Peruanistas
  • IILI, Instituto Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana
  • ILCH, Instituto Literario y Cultural Hispánico
  • IRP, Instituto Ricardo Palma, Lima, Peru
  • LASA, Latin American Studies Association
  • MACLAS, Mid-Atlantic Council on Latin American Studies
  • MLA, Modern Language Association
  • SLAS, Society for Latin American Studies

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