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Francisco García Tortosa (born in La Ñora (Murcia, Spain) on September 15, 1937) is a Spanish University Professor, literary critic, and translator into Spanish. In Spain García Tortosa is considered one of the chief experts on the figure and work of the Irish writer, James Joyce, whose creations he has translated and about which he has published a wide range of studies.〔(Article in ''Universia'' - Access 02/08/2012 )〕〔(Paper in newspaper ''ABC'' - Access 2012/08/02 )〕 The Irish hispanist, Ian Gibson, has called García Tortosa «Spain's leading expert on Joyce», while considering his translation of ''Ulysses'', in collaboration with María Luisa Venegas, as «prodigious».〔(Article "Molly Bloom en Andalucía" in ''El País'' 2002/06/11 - Access 2012/11/23 )〕 == Biography == His primary school in La Ñora, Murcia, was located in a barrack hut which had been used as an Air Force outpost during the Spanish Civil War. The school was run by the Jesuits who occupied the town's ''Monasterio de los Jerónimos'' (Monastery of Saint Jerome). He studied as a high school pupil in the town of Cehegín and in Murcia's "Alfonso X el Sabio" High. Subsequently, he studied at the University of Salamanca, being awarded his Degree in Modern Philology in 1965. In 1970 he obtained his Ph.D. under the tutorship of Carlos Clavería Lizana, Member of the Real Academia Española de la Lengua, while it was in Salamanca that García Tortosa defended his Doctoral Thesis entitled ''Los viajes imaginarios en el siglo XVIII inglés y su fondo cultural'' (''Imaginary Journeys in the English Eighteenth Century and their Cultural Background''). His research work, between 1964 and 1968, was undertaken in the Reading Room of the British Museum, later to become the British Library, and the results were published in book form by the Publications Service of the University of Salamanca. Also between 1964 and 1968 he was Reader in Spanish at Kingston College, London, and at the University of Leeds. He was Full-Tenure Lecturer and Professor at the University of Santiago de Compostela between 1973 and 1976, and Professor at the University of Sevilla between 1976 and 2008, where subsequently he became Professor Emeritus between 2008 and 2011. A large number of his publications up until 2002, at least those related to Joyce, are listed in the book edited by Alberto Lázaro and Antonio R. de Toro Santos, entitled ''James Joyce in Spain, A Critical Bibliography, 1972-2002'' (Publications Service, University of La Coruña, 2002).〔(Google Books - Access 2012/08/02 )〕 He has given key lectures and taught Courses in most of Spain's universities, as well as in institutions such as the Juan March Foundation and the City of Culture of Galicia, in Santiago de Compostela. European universities and institutions in which he has given key lectures and Courses include University College, Dublin, the James Joyce Centre, Dublin, as well as others in Antwerp, Zürich, Monaco, etc. In the United States he has lectured in the University of North Carolina, Oregon University, and Northwestern University, at Evanston, Chicago, amongst others. During his career, Professor García Tortosa has supervised 32 Ph.D. Theses, many of them dealing with Joyce.〔(Personal file in Vicerrectorado de Investigación, Universidad de Sevilla )〕 He has also held the following posts: Secretary of the Faculty of Philology at the University of Santiago de Compostela, Director of the University of Sevilla's Institute of Languages, Dean of the Faculty of Philology at the University of Sevilla. Likewise he was Founder and Treasurer of the Spanish Association of Anglo-American Studies, as well as Co-founder and Director of the journal ''Philologia Hispalensis''. In 1992 he founded the Spanish James Joyce Society, of which he is life-time President, and, in 1993, the Association’s journal, Papers on Joyce, was also founded by him, acting in collaboration with other academic professionals belonging to Spanish universities. Moreover, he has been guest writer in the cultural supplements of newspapers such as El País, El Mundo, and ABC. García Tortosa is divorced and has three children. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Francisco García Tortosa」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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