Ariel de la Fuente
- Professor // History
- Professor // Latin American Studies // SIS
- Professor // Comparative Literature // SLC
- Professor // Cornerstone
Office and Contact
Room: BRNG 6164
Office hours: By appointment
Email: delafuen@purdue.edu
Phone: (765) 494-4132
Fax: (765) 496-1755
Specialization
Ph.D. State University of New York (Stony Brook)
Prof. de la Fuente specializes in Modern Latin American History, Literary Studies, and Intellectual History. His research is interdisciplinary and he has written books, articles and chapters that integrate history, literature, and art. He is the author of Children of Facundo: Caudillo and Gaucho Insurgency during the Argentine State-Formation Process (1853-1870) and Borges, Desire, and Sex. He is currently preparing an anthology with commentary of Argentine poet Baldomero Fernández Moreno and a book on Domingo F. Sarmiento’s Facundo.
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