Rhina Toruño Haensly
Rhina Toruño-Haensly is Professor of Spanish at the University of Texas of the Permian Basin.[1] She is known primarily for her studies in Latin American literature of the 20th century,
Biography
Toruño-Haensly was born Rhina Toruño on April 8 in San Salvador, El Salvador, to Nicaraguan poet Juan Felipe Toruño, and Juana Contreras de Toruño. She attended high school at Colegio Santa Inés and received her Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy from the Universidad Nacional de El Salvador in 1971. She then received a M.A., Philosophy, from the Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium in 1973, and a second M.A., this time in Latin American Literature, from the National University of Paris-Sorbonne, France in 1976. She obtained a Ph.D. in 1978 in French Contemporary Philosophy, from Louvain, with a dissertation on "Emmanuel Mounier’s Idea of Society." She received a second Ph.D, in 1994 in Latin American Literature, from Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana with a thesis "Tiempo, destino y opresión en la obra de Elena Garro" (Time, Destiny and Oppression in the work of Elena Garro.)
Career
She joined the University of Texas in 1995 as Assistant Professor of Spanish, and became successively Associate Professor (1997) and Professor (2001). She is currently also Fellow in the Kathlyn Cosper Dunagan Professorship in Humanities at that University, and director of its Spanish graduate program. She was the first woman member of the Salvadoran Academy of Language (inducted in 2005), and is a member of the Salvadoran Academy of Sciences and Arts.
Publications
She publishes as Rhina Toruño.[2]
Books
- Tiempo destino y opresión en la obra de Elena Garro [Time, Destiny and Oppression in the Work of Elena Garro]. NY: Mellen University Press, 1996. ISBN 0-7734-4258-8.
- 2nd edition, San Salvador: Universidad Tecnológica de El Salvador, 1998. ISBN 99923-21-00-8.
- Cita con la memoria. Elena Garro cuenta su vida a Rhina Toruño. Análisis de sus obras. Buenos Aires, Argentina: Prueba de Galera, 2004. ISBN 987-20648-6-5.
- Juan Felipe Toruño en dos mundos. Análisis crítico de sus obras. (ed. with Ardis L. Nelson._ Boston, MA: CBH Books, 2006. ISBN 1-59835-011-0. (critical biography of her father)
- Crossing cultures: Hispanic authors and the challenges they overcame in the United States = Cruzando culturas : autores hispanos y sus desafíos superados en los Estados Unidos. New YorK: Peter Lang, 2011. ISBN 9781433112539