Víctor Manuel Durán
Associate Professor of Spanish
Chair, Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures

Dr. Durán is Associate Professor of Spanish and Chair of the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at USCA.
 

A native of Belize, Central America, Dr. Durán received his B.Ed. from McGill University, Montreal, Canada in 1979, his M.A. in Romance Languages from the University of Missouri-Columbia in 1984 and his Ph. D. from the same institution in 1988.  He is the author of several books.  His most recent titles are An Anthology of Belizean Literature, the first published anthology of the literature of Belize including works in all four languages of the country, and El Hombre Ahogado., a Spanish translation of Phebe Davidson's The Drowned Man.

Dr. Durán has taught at various educational institutions in Belize, Missouri and Illinois and has taught the gamut of Spanish courses, from beginning to advanced as well as literature courses, and has implemented and taught  specialized courses in Spanish such as Spanish for Business and Spanish for Health Professionals. Dr. Durán’s area of specialization is Latin American Literature, with emphasis on the contemporary Latin American novel, particularly those of Carlos Fuentes, Mario Vargas Llosa, Manuel Puig and Isabel Allende. He has researched extensively the elements of Marxist Literary Theory and their representation and influence in the contemporary literature of Latin America and has published a seminal book on that topic, A Marxist Reading of Fuentes, Vargas Llosa and Puig.