Daniel Balderston
Mellon Professor of Modern Languages, Director of Undergraduate Studies
Biography
Daniel Balderston joined the University of Pittsburgh in 2008 as Mellon Professor of Hispanic Languages and Literatures. He is director of the Borges Center, and editor of Variaciones Borges. Before coming to Pitt, he taught at Tulane and the University of Iowa. Dr. Balderston is an expert on Borges, Southern Cone literature, Brazilian literature, and Latin American gender and sexuality studies.
Degrees
- PhD, Comparative Literature, Princeton University
- BA, English, UC - Berkeley
Selected Publications
- How Borges Wrote (University of Virginia Press, 2018)
- Los caminos del afecto (Instituto Caro y Cuervo, 2015)
- Innumerables relaciones: cómo leer con Borges (Universidad Nacional del Litoral, 2010)
Find many of Dr. Balderston's publications online via Hillman Library's repository at D-Scholarship @Pitt.
Areas of Specialization
His research focuses on Borges and his contemporaries (Onetti, Silvina Ocampo, Roa Bastos) and writers whose work responds in different ways to Borges's work (Wilcock, Piglia, Saer). He also works on gender and sexuality studies and in literary translation (and in translation studies). His work ranges across Spanish America and Brazil, with a particular emphasis on the River Plate area.