Description:

Graciela Montaldo
Professor
Director of Graduate Studies

Professor Montaldo specializes in modern Latin American cultures. She has publishedZonas ciegas. Populismos y experimentos culturales en Argentina (2010), A propriedade da Cultura (2004), Teoría crítica, teoría cultural (2001), Ficciones culturales y fábulas de identidad en América Latina (1999), La sensibilidad amenazada (1995), and De pronto el campo (1993). She is co-editor of The Argentina Reader: History, Culture and Politics (2002), Esplendores y miserias del siglo XIX (1996) and Yrigoyen entre Borges y Arlt (1989). She has published articles on Independence writers, Latin American fin-de-siècle, modern culture, contemporary literature, and culture industry and institutions in Latin America in various anthologies and periodicals. She is currently working on cultural consumptions in Latin America. Her last book, Rubén Darío. Viajes de un cosmopolita extremo (FCE, 2013) is a selection of Rubén Darío´s travel writings.