Rubén Gallo#Books

{{short description|American academic}}

Rubén Gallo is the Walter S. Carpenter Jr. Professor in Language, Literature, and Civilization of Spain{{citation

|url=https://www.princeton.edu/spo/news/archive/?id=13156

|publisher=Princeton University Department of Spanish and Portuguese Languages and Cultures

|title=Rubén Gallo and Gabriela Nouzeilles named to endowed professorships

|date=July 2, 2014

|author=Karen M. González}}{{citation

|url=https://www.princeton.edu/dof/faculty/professorships/#comp000046bebe1a00000017e21418

|title=Endowed Professorships and Other Designated Chairs

|publisher=Princeton University}} at Princeton University, specializing in modern and contemporary Spanish America. He also serves as Professor of Spanish and Portuguese Languages and Cultures, and has directed Princeton's program in Latin American Studies since 2008. He holds a B.A. in English from Yale University and a Ph.D. in comparative literature from Columbia University.

At Princeton, he has organized conferences on "Radio and the Avant-Garde" (2003) and "Stadiums: Athletics, and Aesthetics" (2004), and "Freud and 20th Century Culture" (2010).{{cite web|url=http://soa.princeton.edu/content/rubén-gallo |title=Rubén Gallo |publisher=Princeton University School of Architecture |date=2013-05-21}}

In the winter semester of 2009–2010, Gallo was the Fulbright–Freud Visiting Lecturer in Psychoanalysis at the Sigmund Freud Museum in Vienna, Austria, and he presented the seminar "Freud at Large: The Cultural Reception of Psychoanalysis in Latin America and Beyond" in the Institute for History at the University of Vienna.{{citation

|url = http://www.freud-museum.at/index.php/Fulbright_Freud_Visiting_Lecturer_Psychoanalysis.html

|title = Fulbright-Freud Visiting Lecturer of Psychoanalysis

|publisher = Sigmund Freud Museum Vienna

|url-status = dead

|archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20140903223347/http://www.freud-museum.at/index.php/Fulbright_Freud_Visiting_Lecturer_Psychoanalysis.html

|archivedate = 2014-09-03

}} He now serves on the board of directors of the Freud Museum Vienna.{{cite web |url=https://www.princeton.edu/spo/people/display_person.xml?netid=gallo |title=Rubén Gallo faculty home page |publisher=Princeton University}}

He decided to write a book about Freud's relationship with Mexico and Freud's influence on Mexican poets and artists, because while there were already books about Freud in Russia, France, and Argentina, there was none about Mexico.{{cite web |url=https://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S25/73/4b6K31/ |title=Perspective on: Freud and Mexico, via Vienna |author=Karin Dienst |date=November 4, 2009 |publisher=Princeton University }}{{dead link|date=April 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} He first became acquainted with Freud through a seminar of Julia Kristeva.{{citation

|url=http://www.apadivisions.org/division-39/publications/reviews/freuds-mexico.aspx

|author=Mark Stafford

|title=Don Quixote in the New World (review of Gallo's Freud's Mexico)

|publisher=American Psychological Association}}. The review attributes the seminar to Julia Joyaux, a married name used professionally by Julia Kristeva for some of her works.

Gallo's Princeton faculty page states that "he teaches courses on Freud, the avant-garde, and other aspects of twentieth-century culture".

Gallo was elected as a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2020.{{Cite web|title=16 faculty members, 18 alumni elected to nation's historic academies|url=https://www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2020/05/academy-election-16-faculty-members|website=The Princetonian|access-date=2020-05-11}}