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).
