Ruben Gallo
Department/Program(s):
- Spanish and Portuguese Languages and Cultures
Position: Associate Professor
Title: Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese Languages and Cultures. Director, Program in Latin American Studies.
Area(s):
- Modern and Contemporary Spanish America
Office: 337 East Pyne
Phone: 609-258-7759
Email: gallo@princeton.edu
Office Hours: LOA
Profile
Rubén Gallo (B.A., Yale; Ph.D., Columbia), Associate Professor of Spanish-American literature and Director of the Program in Latin American Studies, is spending the fall semester in Austria as the Freud-Fulbright Scholar of Psychoanalysis. In addition to teaching a course on Freud in Latin America at the University of Vienna, he is doing research at the Freud Museum on Berggasse 19. His publications include:
• Freud’s Mexico: Into the Wilds of Psychoanalysis (forthcoming from the MIT Press)
• Mexican Modernity: The Avant-Garde and the Technological Revolution (MIT Press, winner of the MLA’s Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize, 2005), a study of how five artifacts – cameras, typewriters, radio, cement, and stadiums – shaped the representation of modernity in Mexican art and literature of the post-revolutionary period.
• New Tendencies in Mexican Art: the 1990s (Palgrave, 2004; Spanish translation forthcoming from Fondo de Cultura Económica, Mexico City), a cultural study of experimental art in Mexico City,
• The Mexico City Reader (Wisconsin, 2004; published in Spanish as México DF: Lecturas para paseantes, Turner, 2005, and in French as Mexico: Anthologie Littéraire d’une megalopole baroque, Autrement, 2007), an anthology of literary texts on the Mexican megalopolis after 1968.
• Heterodoxos mexicanos: una antología dialogada (Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2007), co-authored with Ignacio Padilla, an overview of the Mexican literary canon.
Education
- Ph.D., Columbia University
- B.A., Yale
