Diana Sorenson
Dean of Arts and Humanities, James F. Rothenberg Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures, and of Comparative Literature, Harvard University
Diana Sorensen is Dean of Arts and Humanities, and James F. Rothenberg Professor of Romance Languages & Literatures and of Comparative Literature. Before joining the Harvard faculty in 2001, she worked at Columbia and Wesleyan Universities. She is a specialist in nineteenth- and twentieth- centuries Latin American Literature, with additional expertise in cultural theory and gender theory.
Among her varied writings on Latin American Literature are the following books: The Reader and the Text: Interpretative Strategies for Latin American Literatures; Facundo and the Construction of Argentine Culture (winner of the MLA Prize for the best book in the field in 1996); and Sarmiento: Annotated Edition of his Works. In 2008 she was awarded a Cabot Fellowship for her book released in August 2007, A Turbulent Decade Remembered: Cultural Scenes from the Latin American Sixties.
Diana Sorensen is Dean of Arts and Humanities, and James F. Rothenberg Professor of Romance Languages & Literatures and of Comparative Literature. Before joining the Harvard faculty in 2001, she worked at Columbia and Wesleyan Universities. She is a specialist in nineteenth- and twentieth- centuries Latin American Literature, with additional expertise in cultural theory and gender theory.
Among her varied writings on Latin American Literature are the following books: The Reader and the Text: Interpretative Strategies for Latin American Literatures; Facundo and the Construction of Argentine Culture (winner of the MLA Prize for the best book in the field in 1996); and Sarmiento: Annotated Edition of his Works. In 2008 she was awarded a Cabot Fellowship for her book released in August 2007, A Turbulent Decade Remembered: Cultural Scenes from the Latin American Sixties.
