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Ariel de la Fuente


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.

Books, articles and chapters written by Prof. de la Fuente specializing in Modern Latin American History, Literary Studies, and Intellectual History.
Historical book cover for Facundo English edition, showing a gaucho on a horse in a sepia-toned landscape. Historical book cover for Facundo (Spanish edition), featuring a sepia-toned illustration of a 19th-century assembly in a city plaza. Academic book cover for Borges, Desire, and Sex, showing the title in bold pink text over a minimalist graphic of a map. Academic book cover for Borges, deseo y sexo by Ariel de la Fuente, with the title in gold and white serif font against a dark brown backdrop.