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Diana Sorensen

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

  • Office: University Hall North 218 & Boylston Hall 418
  • Phone: (617) 384-7511
  • Fax: (617) 496-4682
  • E-mail: sorensen@fas.harvard.edu
  • Office Hours: By appointment Joanna Jeskova, 617-496-8667

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

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

A Turbulent Decade
 

Books:
A Turbulent Decade Remembered. Scenes from the Latin American Sixties. Stanford University Press, 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.


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.


Courses Offered 2008-2009: As Dean for the Humanities, Prof. Sorensen will not be offering any courses in 2008-2009.

For more information, go to the RLL course catalogue.


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Last updated on July 21, 2009