Dr. Rubén Gallo

Biography

Rubén Gallo is the Walter S. Carpenter, Jr. Professor of Latin American Literature at Princeton University, where he has taught since 2002. His research focuses on the intersection of modern architecture, literature, and film in Cuba and Latin America. He is the editor of 'Havana Modern: Critical Readings of Cuban Architecture' (Arquine, 2023), which offers theoretical readings of modern architecture in Havana. His forthcoming book 'Cuban Modernity' examines the works of writers such as Alejo Carpentier and Guillermo Cabrera Infante in the context of 1950s Havana, also discussing responses from foreign intellectuals like Graham Greene and Jean-Paul Sartre to Cuba's unique modernism. Gallo has published extensively on European and Latin American modernisms, with notable works including 'Mexican Modernity: Avant-Garde Cultural Revolution' (MIT Press, 2006) and 'Freud’s Mexico: Wilds of Psychoanalysis' (MIT, 2010). He has also authored two novels set in Cuba: 'Teoría y práctica de La Habana' (2017) and 'Muerte en La Habana' (2021). His work has been translated into several languages, including French, Spanish, Italian, Japanese, and Chinese. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and serves on the board of the Freud Museum in Vienna. Gallo’s teaching includes courses such as “Opera and Politics” and “Literature and Politics in Latin America.”

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