Education

Publications

• "El narrador en la obra de Julio Ramón Ribeyro,” Revista de crítica literaria latinoamericana, no. 20, (1984): 155-169.
• "Problemas filológicos e históricos en Páginas libres de González Prada,” Revista de crítica literaria latinoamericana, vol. XI, no.23, (1986): 141-150.
• "Del indigenismo a la narrativa urbana en el Perú,” Revista de critica literaria latinoamericana, vol. XIV, no. 27, (1988): 57-74.
• The Andes Viewed from the City. Literary and Political Discourse on the Indian in Peru 1848-1930, New York, Peter Lang, 1987.
  Spanish translation: Una visión urbana de los Andes. Génesis y desarrollo del indigenismo en el Perú 1848-1930, Lima, Serie Tiempo Historia; Instituto de Apoyo Agrario, 1991.
• "Mario Vargas Llosa y la función social de la literatura,” in Ciplijauskaaité, B. and Ch. Maurer (eds.) La voluntad de humanismo. Homenaje a Juan Marichal (Barcelona: Anthropos, 1990): 249-260.
• "Clorinda Matto de Turner,” in Solé, Carlos A., and Maria Isabel Abreu (eds.) Latin American Writers Vol. I (New York: Scribner’s Sons, 1990): 305-309.
• "Bello, Lastarria, and Sarmiento: Dialogues and polemics,” in Sarmiento and his Argentina, Joseph Crescenti (ed.), Boulder and London, Lynne Rienner Publishers, (1993): 61-70.
• “Lo mágico-religioso en el indigenismo y en la vida de Jose María Arguedas,” Mester, vol. XXII, no. 1, (1993): 19-29.
• "Fábulas clásicas y neoplatónicas en los Comentarios Reales del los incas,” Cortest, Luis (ed.) Homenaje a José Durand, Madrid, Verbum, (1993): 47-59.
• "Julio Ramón Ribeyro,” Dictionary of Leterary Biography, Volume 145: Modern Latin American Fiction Writers, Luis, William and Ann Gonzalez (eds.), Detroit, Bruccoli Clark Layman, (1994): 257-262.
• "En torno a la historia del concepto de la historia literaria hispanoamericana,” Special issue, Pedro Aullón de Haro (ed.): “Teoría de la historia de la literatura y el arte,” Teoría/Crítica, 1 (1994): 195-209.
• "Lo más oscuro del verano: interpretando un poema de Blanca Varela,” Essays in honor of Gisela Beutler, S. Neumeister (ed.), Neue Romania, 16 (1995): 131-135.
• "The degree zero of Spanish-American cultural history and the Role of Native Populations in the Formation of Pre-Independence National Pasts,” Poetics Today, 15:4 (Winter 1994): 587-603.
• "Asociaciones: una lectura de Mephisto Waltzer,” Mester, XXIII: 2, (Fall 1994): 45-51.
• "La literatura y el lenguaje de la religión: Frye, Burke, Bloom y Steiner,” Teoría/Crítica. 3 (1996): 483-495.
• "A Reading of The Real Life of Alejandro Mayta in the light of Joseph Conrad’s Under Western Eyes,” Antipodas, VII-IX (1996/1997): 205-215.
• "Walter Benjamin: el Mesianismo y la Traducción,” Teoría/Crítica. 4 (1997): 135-143.
• "Captain Pantoja and the Special Service. A Transitional Novel,” Review of Contemporary Literature 17.1 (1997) 52-57.
• Temptation of the Word The novels of Mario Vargas Llosa. Nashville and London, Vanderbilt University Press, 1998.
  British edition: Liverpool University Press, 1998.
  Paperback edition: Vanderbilt University Press, 1999.
• "Goths and Turks and the Representation of Pagans and Infidels in Garcilaso and Ercilla,” in Garcilaso Inca de la Vega, and American Humanist, José Anadón (ed.), Notre Dame University Press, 1998, pp. 110-125.
• "Lo demoniaco con urbanidad: Mario Vargas Llosa y Thomas Mann,” Insula. 624 (1998): 19-20.
• "La historia imperial de España en el Orlando Furioso y La Araucana,” Festschrift for Dietrich Briesemeister. Dulce et decorum est philologian colere, Berlin, Domus Editions Eruope, 1999, pp. 1667-1677
• "Borges y la traducción,” Lexis, Vol. XXIII, no. 1, 1999, pp. 3-23.
• Invisible Work. Borges and Translaton. Vanderbilt University Press, 2002.
• The Cambridge Companion to the Latin American Novel (Editor), [under contract, publication expected in 2003].


Recent Articles


• "'Considering Coldly...' A Response to Franco Moretti," New Left Review, 15 (May June 2002) : 61-74
• "Triumphs of Humility. Borges and Translation," Catalogue for the exhibition: Borges, the Time Machine, Buenos Aires, Fausto Vazaquez, 2001, pp. 8-10.
• "Pedro Mexía y el paradigma del infiel en Ercilla," La producción simbólica en la América colonial, José Pascual Buxó (ed.), México, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 2001, pp. 15-25.
• "La política y la crítica literaria. El caso Vargas Llosa," Perspectivas, vol. 4, n. 2, 2001, pp. 339-351.
• "Heidegger and the Psychology of Art," Klaus-Peter Veit (ed.) Zwischen Literatur und Philosophie. Suche nach dem Menschlichen, Berlin, WVB, 2000, pp. 53-62.
• "Retaggio Spagnolo e 'Americanidad,'" Puccini, Dario and Saúl Yurkiévich (eds.) Storia Della Civilta' Letteraria Ispanoamericana. Volume Primo. Dall'Età Precolombiana All'Ottocento, Turin, UTET, 2000, pp. 483-501.
• "The Incest Motif in Narratives of the United States and Spanish America," Udo Schöning (ed.) Internationalität nationaler Literaturen, Goettingen, Wallestein Verlag, 2000, pp. 390-403.
• Introduction to Mario Vargas Llosa's Cervantes and the Craft of Fiction, Vanderbilt University Press, 1999, pp. 3-6.
• "Donoso y el discreto encanto de la ternura," Anthropos, nos. 184-85 (1999) : 163-166.
• "Borges en el Collège de France," Taller de Letras, no. 27 (1999) : 117-118.

Honors and Awards

• Distinguished Visiting Fellow, The Institute for Advanced Study, La Trobe Univeristy, Melbourne, Australia, June-September 2002.
• Mercator Research Fellowship, Deutsches Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), 2001.
• UCLA Distinguished Teaching Award, 2000.
• Choice, Outstanding Academic Book of the Year Award, for Temptation of the Word. The Novels of Mario Vargas Llosa, 1998.
• Del Amo FOundation Fellowship for Archival research at the National Library of Spain in Madrid.
• Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Fellowship, Host: Prof. Dr. Dietrich Breisemeister of the Iberoamerikanisches Institut, Berlin, 1991-1992.
• Hoopes prize for excellence in undergraduate teaching, Harvard University, 1990.
• National Endowment fot the Humanities, Travel to Collections Award, Summer 1990.
• Clarke Fund Research Grant, Harvard University, 1989-90.
• Whiting Fellow, 1984-85.
• Foreign Student, Philosophy Program, Ecole Normale Supériure de Paris (rue d'Ulm), 1982-1983.
• Stanford University Fellowship, 1980-84.
• Foreign Student, LIterature and Philosophy, Université de Montpellier, 1978-1980.
• Bank of America and Berkeley Alumni Association Fellowships, 1976-1980
• Departmental Citation, Comparative Literature, UC-Berkeley.

Research Interests