Latin American essay and fiction, literary theory.
Maîtrise d’Histoire 1986 Université de Paris VII, Jussieu.
DEA 1989 Université de Paris III, Sorbonne Nouvelle.
MA 1993, PhD 1998 Princeton University.
Reed College 2001–.
Born in Buenos Aires, Diego Alonso obtained his DEA from the University of Paris III in 1989 and his PhD from Princeton University in 1998. His research has focused on the relationship among aesthetics, rhetoric, and politics, as reflected in a corpus of essay writers (Martí, Rodó, Vasconcelos, Lugones, Mariátegui, Ortiz, Pedreira, among others) in the context of nineteenth- and twentieth-century modernization processes in Latin America. Related to this subject, he published José Enrique Rodó: una retórica para la democracia (Editorial Trilce, 2009). His other line of research involves hermeneutical analysis of contemporary Argentinean and Uruguayan fiction (Borges, Walsh, Cortázar, Onetti, Piglia). In this domain, he has published in prestigious academic journals (Variaciones Borges, Iberoamericana, Latin American Literary Review, Catálogos) and just completed the writing a book titled Espejismos reales. Imágenes y política en la literatura rioplatense.
Diego Alonso