Enrique Ojeda (scholar)

José Enrique Ojeda (1928 – June 2023) was an Ecuadorian-born writer and academic.

A professor at Boston College for 30 years, he was the author of several books about Latin American literature, and was called "the world's leading authority"[1] on Ecuadoran poet Jorge Carrera Andrade.

He attended prep school at Quito's Colegio Loyola, a Jesuit institution, then earned a BA and an MA at the Pontifical Catholic University of Ecuador.

Moving to the U.S., Ojeda earned an MA in French Literature at the University of Cincinnati in 1959.

[3] photo of Enrique Ojeda Ojeda edited, and wrote introductions for, the following books by Jorge Carrera Andrade: Ojeda wrote a chapter called "Jorge Carrera Andrade" for Latin American Writers, Supplement I, New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 2002 Ojeda wrote many journal articles, including, "Littérature de l' Équateur", "Les années Fastes: de 1920 a 1960", Nuit Blanche, Québec, Février 2004