Profile
Rubén Gallo is the Walter S Carpenter Jr. Professor in Latin American Literature at Princeton University, where he has taught since 2002. He is the author of many books on Twentieth Century culture, including Mexican Modernity: the Avant-Garde and the Cultural Revolution (MIT Press, 2006, winner of the MLA’s Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize), Freud’s Mexico: Into the Wilds of Psychoanalysis (MIT, 2010, winner of the Gradiva Prize), Proust’s Latin Americans (Hopkins, 2014). He is also a novelist and was published two books on Cuba: Teoría y práctica de la Habana (2017) and Muerte en La Habana (2021). His work has been translated into French, Spanish, Italian, Japanese and Chinese. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and serves on the board of the Freud Museum, Vienna.
Education
- Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Columbia University
- B.A. in English from Yale University
Selected Publications
Books in English
- New Tendencies in Mexican Art: the 1990s (Palgrave, 2004)
- Mexican Modernity: The Avant-Garde and the Technological Revolution (MIT, 2004)
- The Mexico City Reader (Wisconsin, 2004)
- Freud’s Mexico: into the Wilds of Psychoanalysis (MIT, 2010)
- Proust’s Latin Americans (Hopkins 2014)
- Havana Modern: Critical Readings on Cuban Architecture (Arquine, 2023)
- Conversation at Princeton with Mario Vargas Llosa (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023)
Books in Spanish
- Heterodoxos mexicanos: una antología dialogada (with Ignacio Padilla, FCE, 2006)
- México DF: Lecturas para paseantes (Turner, 2005)
- Las artes de la ciudad (FCE, 2010)
- Máquinas de vanguardia (Sexto Piso, 2014)
- Freud en México (FCE, 2013)
- Los latinoamericanos de Proust (Sexto Piso, 2016)
- Teoría y práctica de La Habana (JUS, 2017)
- Conversación en Princeton con Mario Vargas Llosa (Alfaguara, 2017)
- Crónicas de una pequeña ciudad mexicana en La Habana (Hypermedia, 2020)
- Muerte en La Habana (Vanilla Planifolia, 2021)
Books in French
- Mexico: Chroniques littéraires d’une mégalopole baroque (Autrement, 2007)
- Freud au Mexique (Éditions Campagne Première, 2013)
- Proust Latino (Buchet Chastel, 2019)
Book in Italian
- Un Edipo Stalinista (Il Saggiatore, 2013)