Fernando Rivera-Díaz

Assistant Professor

Newcomb 322E

862-3416
friverad@

Fernando Rivera-Díaz taught in several Peruvian universities before coming to the U.S. to pursue a Ph.D. degree at Princeton University, which he completed in 2006. His research on contemporary Latin American narrative focuses on the poetics of knowledge, the politics of the novel, the constitution of modern subjects, and political violence, with a strong emphasis in Andean literature and lulture. He is completing a book titled Escritura envenenada y novela de la traducción en El zorro de arriba y el zorro de abajo de José María Arguedas. He is also editing Encuentro y diálogo: Arguedas y la Literatura Andina. Conversaciones en Princeton con William Rowe y Peter Elmore based on a series of dialogues and lectures on Andean Literature held at Princeton University.

Abridged CV