Diana Sorensen
James F. Rothenberg Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures, Professor of Comparative Literature, and Dean for the Humanities
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B.A. in Letras, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina
M.A., Ph.D., Columbia University
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. |
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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.
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 Romance Languages and Literatures course catalogue.
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Last updated on September 17, 2008