Reinaldo Laddaga

Associate Professor of Romance Languages; Graduate Chair, Spanish

Contemporary Latin American literature and critical theory.
He is the author of Literaturas indigentes y placeres bajos (Beatriz Viterbo, 2000), a study of the links between literature and ethics in the works of Felisberto Hernández, Virgilio Piñera, and Juan Rodofo Wilcock; La euforia de Baltasar Brum (Tusquets, 1999), a novel; and numerous articles on literature, art, and film. He is currently working on a book on recent manifestations of Latin American literature and art.

• E-mail: rladdaga@sas.upenn.edu
• Office: 504 Williams Hall
• Telephone: (215) 898-6029
• Fax: (215) 898-0933
• Office Hours: Fall 2009: T, R 12:15-1:15; and by appt.