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James F. Rothenberg Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures, Professor of Comparative Literature, and Dean for the Humanities

Office: Boylston Hall 418 and 033 University Hall South Phone: 617-384-7511 Office hours spring 2008: by appointment Joanna Jeskova 617 496 8667. E-mail: sorensen@fas.harvard.edu

B.A. in Letras, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina
M.A., Ph.D., Columbia University

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Interests: 19th- and 20th-Century Latin American Studies; History and Memory.

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Forthcoming August 27, 2007		BOOKS: A Turbulent Decade Remembered. Scenes from the Latin American Sixties. Stanford University Press, 2007. Forthcoming August 27, 2007. (Selection, prologue and notes) Sarmiento. An annotated edition of his complete works. Madrid: Biblioteca de Literatura Universal/Espasa Calpe, 2002. Facundo and the Construction of Argentine Culture. Austin, Texas: University of Texas Press, 1996. The Reader and the Text: Interpretative Strategies for Latin American Literatures. West Lafayette, Indiana: Purdue University Monographs in Romance Languages, 1986.

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RECENT SELECTED ARTICLES:

"Anxious Masculinities: the Cuban Revolution and the Construction of the Hero," in Actas del Congreso de Literatura Iberoamericana, Spring 2004.

"Las tempranas conexiones transatlánticas," Quimera 245 (2004): 18-21.

"Postcolonial liminality: Sarmiento and the Question of Citizenship,"in Homenaje a Enrique Anderson Imbert Madrid: Juan de la Cuesta, 2003.

"Tlatelolco 1968: Paz and Poniatowska on Law and Violence," forthcoming in Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos, Summer 2002.

"From Diaspora to Agora: Julio Cortázar's Reconfiguration of Exile," Modern Language Notes 114 (1999), 357-88.

"La construcción de los mitos nacionales en la Argentina del Centenario" Revista de crítica literaria latinoamericana,47 (1998), 147-66.

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Courses offered 2007-2008:

Humanities 21. The Making of Cultural and Political Myths in Latin America

Spanish 174. Latin American Culture and Society in the 1960s

Spanish 267. Postcolonial Intellectuals and the Question of Citizenship in Spanish America

Comparative Literature 277. Memory, History, and Fiction

Other courses offered:

[Spanish 170. Imagining Buenos Aires]

[[Spanish 184. Sex and Gender in Spanish America: "Man" and "Woman"]

[Spanish 191. Jorge Luis Borges and Julio Cortázar]

[Spanish 198. Cultural Spaces: Representations of the Country, the City and the Border in Spanish American Writing]

For more information, go to the Romance Languages and Literatures course catalogue.

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Last updated on January 30, 2008