Diana Sorensen is James F. Rothenberg Research Professor of Romance Languages & Literatures and of Comparative Literature. Before joining the Harvard faculty in 2001, she taught at Columbia and Wesleyan Universities. She is a specialist in nineteenth- and twentieth- centuries Latin American literature, and in comparative literature. Among her writings 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), Sarmiento: Annotated Edition of his Works, A Turbulent Decade Remembered: Cultural Scenes from the Latin American Sixties , and Territories and Trajectories: Cultures in Circulation. She served as Dean for Arts and Humanities in the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences between 2006 and 2016. Her currents interests include material culture, the environmental humanities, and notions of mobility and displacement. At present she is writing a cultural and material history of expatriates in Florence between the end of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth centuries.
James F. Rothenberg Research Professor of Romance Languages & Literatures and of Comparative Literature