Faculty Profile for Dr. Yuri Porras
Dr. Yuri Porras
Professor — Dept of World Languages & Literatures
CENT 214
phone: (512) 245-2360
Biography Section
Biography and Education
Dr. J. Yuri Porras received his Ph.D. from The Ohio State University in Early Modern Peninsular Literatures and cultures with a minor in Theater, and he is currently Professor of Spanish at Texas State University.Teaching Interests
Early Modern Poetry, Theater, and ProseInterrelationships between Music and Literature
Performance Studies
Research Interests
His interests, both as regards scholarship and teaching, include film, semiotics, social and political history, and most especially, music-text interrelations, particularly, in drama.Selected Scholarly/Creative Work
- Porras, J. Y., & Fernandez, E. (2020). Living The Comedia: Essays Celebrating Amy Williamsen. New Orleans, US: U Press of South.
- Porras, J. Y. (2023). “The Comedia Between Worlds: Music and Performance in the INAEM/CNTC Production of Luís Vélez de Guevara’s La serrana de la Vera.” In The Comedia Between Worlds: Critical Intersections in Early Modern Theatre (pp. 385–405). Santander, Spain: Sociedad Menendez Pelayo.
- Porras, J. Y. (2023). “Musicalidad, identidad y reescritura en El conde Pero Velez de Luis Velez de Guevara.” Hecho Teatral: Revista de Teoria y Practica Del Teatro Hispanico, 22, 5–27.
- Porras, J. Y. (2023). “Diego Sanchez de Badajoz’s Musical Farsas: The Significance of El juego de las canas.” Symposium: A Quarterly Journal in Modern Languages, 77(2), 125–141.
- Porras, J. Y. (2021). Music, text, and performing cultural identity in Francisco Barbieri’s (1823-1894) El barberillo de Lavapiés (1874). In Dissonances of modernity : music, text, and performance in modern Spain (pp. 165–187). Chapel Hill, USA: University of North Carolina Press.
Selected Service Activities
Chair
Departmental Research Outreach and Promotion
2024-Present
Coordinator / Organizer
AHCT Symposium 2023
January 2023-Present
Member
Spanish MA Admissions Committee
2014-Present
Board of Directors
The Association for Hispanic Classical Theater
April 2014-Present
Member
Graduate Faculty Committee
2011-Present