Ph.D. Stanford University (1980). Professor of Spanish. Guggenheim Fellow (2003-2004).

My interests include twentieth century Latin American narrative; body, sex, gender and sexuality; literary theory; and indigenismo.  My current research deals with the ethical and political dimensions of love in twentieth century and contemporary Latin American literature. 

I am the author of Body of Writing: Figuring Desire in Spanish American Literature (Duke UP, 2000), Miguel Angel Asturias’s Archeology of Return (Cambridge UP, 1993) and as well as co-author (with Ted Perry) of Michelangelo Antonioni, a Guide to Reference and Resources (G.K. Hall, 1986).  Some of my more recent articles and shorter texts include “Cortázar’s Closet” (Julio Cortázar: New Readings. Ed. Carlos Alonso. Cambridge UP, 1998), “The Literature of Indigenismo” (The Cambridge History of Latin American Literature, II: The Twentieth Century, ed. Roberto González Echevarría and Enrique Pupo-Walker) and “La persistencia del deseo: Colibrí de Severo Sarduy” (Revista Iberoamericana 57).

r.prieto@vanderbilt.edu