Dr. Eduardo Huaytan-Martinez
Assistant Professor of Spanish
Director of the Spanish Program
Office: Classroom Center 320C
Email: ehuaytan@wtamu.edu
Phone: 806-651-2462
Professional Profile
Dr. Huaytán-Martínez received his B.A. in Peruvian Latin American Literatures from the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos (Peru), and his M.A. and Ph.D. in Latin American Literatures and Cultures from Purdue University.
Teaching and Related Service
Dr. Huaytán-Martínez teaches the full range of Spanish courses, from introductory language classes to advanced seminars on Hispanic cultures and literatures.
He is an active member of the Panhandle Language Teachers Association (PLTA), a nonprofit organization that hosts conferences and workshops to support professional development for area instructors.
Research and Creative Activity
Dr. Huaytán-Martínez’s research focuses on literary and cultural representations in the 20th- and the 21st-century Peruvian and Latin American literatures and cultures.
His book Emociones masculinas. Afecto melodramático en las obras de Vargas Llosa y Arguedas was published in 2024 by Universidad San Ignacio de Loyola University Press. He is co-author of Poéticas de la invención. Ensayos sobre originalidad, testimonio y modernismo (Latinoamericana Editores and Pakarina Editores, 2025), as well as Nuevos caminos de la crítica. La investigación literaria en San Marcos (2006–2016), published by Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos University Press in 2021.
He has recently published scholarly articles and reviews in journals such as Revista de Crítica Literaria Latinoamerica, Letras, Castilla. Estudios de Literatura, Hispnófila, Boletín de la Academia Peruana de la Lengua, Desde el Sur and Escritura y Pensamiento.