Hernán Díaz

Assistant Professor of Hispanic and Italian Studies

Degree/Institution: PhD New York University
Office: HU 247
Phone: (518) 442-4105
Fax: (518) 442-4111
Email: hdiaz@albany.edu

Academic Focus

Comparative study of North and South American literature; modern transatlantic literature; aesthetics; modernism, modernismo, and theories of the avant-garde; definitions of literature; literature and science; theories of space; insularism.

Bio

Hernán Díaz holds a  licenciatura from the Universidad de Buenos Aires, an M.A. from the University of London, and a Ph.D. from NYU. He is currently finishing his first manuscript, Borges, between History and Eternity, which will be published by Continuum in the spring of 2011.

His ongoing projects include research on the trope of the island in modern literature ( Literature and Isolation: A Tropical Archipelago, also forthcoming from Continuum) , and on the figure of the mad scientist ( Toward a Mad Epistemology: Science, Politics and Literature).

Publications

He has published a chapter on Borges and Lugones in  Jorge Luis Borges. Intervenciones sobre pensamiento y literatura. Buenos Aires: Paidós, Espacios del Saber, 2000 (ISBN 950-12-6515-3), and has articles in the  Review: Literature and Arts of the Americas, and  Espacios, among other publications. His first book, on Borges, will be published by Continuum in the spring of 2011. He is currently guest-editing an issue on insular literature for La Habana Elegante, which will come out in September of 2010.