viernes, 6 de septiembre de 2013

Conferencia 10 de septiembre: "El holocausto en la literatura mexicana: Carlos Fuentes, José Emilio Pacheco, Margo Glantz, Jorge Volpi e Ignacio Padilla", por Maarten van Delden






UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL MAYOR DE SAN MARCOS

FACULTAD DE LETRAS Y CIENCIAS HUMANAS

DEPARTAMENTO ACADÉMICO DE LITERATURA

En el marco de las actividades fomentadas por el Departamento Académico de Literatura de la Facultad de Letras y Ciencias Humanas, el Dr. Jorge Valenzuela Garcés, coordinador del departamento, invita a la conferencia:

“El holocausto en la literatura mexicana: Carlos Fuentes, José Emilio Pacheco, Margo Glantz, Jorge Volpi e Ignacio Padilla”

Doctor Maarten van Delden, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)

Martes 10 de septiembre, 7:30 pm

Sala se sesiones del decanato

Maarten van Delden obtained his Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Columbia University in 1990. Prior to joining the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at UCLA in 2009, he taught at New York University, Rice, and the University of Southern California. He is the author of Carlos Fuentes, Mexico, and Modernity (Vanderbilt University Press, 1998) which was recognized as an "Outstanding Scholarly Book" by Choice Magazine, and co-author (with Yvon Grenier) of Gunshots at the Fiesta: Literature and Politics in Latin America (Vanderbilt University Press, 2009). In addition, he is the author of numerous articles and reviews on topics in the fields of Mexican Studies, Latin American Literature, Comparative Literature, and U.S. American Literature. He is currently working on two books: Polemical Continent: Culture Wars in Twentieth-Century Spanish America and Mexico and the United States: A Literary and Intellectual history, 1950-2000. Books: (2009) Gunshots at the Fiesta: Literature and Politics in Latin America. With Yvon Grenier. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, (1998) Carlos Fuentes, Mexico, and Modernity. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press (published in the UK by Liverpool University Press).