Juan Bautista Avalle-Arce (13 May 1927 – 25 December 2009) was an Argentine Hispanist.

Bautista Avalle-Arce was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, to a family with Galician and Basque roots. He was educated in St. Andrews, a Scottish boarding school. Juan Bautista Avalle-Arce met Amado Alonso upon returning to Argentina, and followed him to Harvard University, obtaining a doctorate in 1955. Though he sought to return to his parents' homeland, the Francoist government did not acknowledge doctorates earned abroad. As such, Bautista Avalle-Arce began teaching in the United States. Despite spending five decades in the United States, he never sought US citizenship.^[1] Over the course of his career, Bautista Avalle-Arce taught at Smith College,^[2] Ohio State University,^[3] the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,^[4] and the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he was Jose Miguel Barandiaran Professor of Basque Studies.^[1] In 1960, Bautista Avalle-Arce was awarded a Guggenheim fellowship.^[5] After retiring in 2003, he moved to Eneriz. Bautista Avalle-Arce died on December 25, 2009, at the University Hospital of Navarre.^[1]

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