Resistance

10.11.25 Yes, I will be happy to write a text on resistance, thank you for the invitation.

12.12.25 I am running a bit behind, but will have the text soon.

1.7.26 Happy New Year! I plan to finish the text on resistance in the next week or so.

2.6.26 Apologies, it is the start of term and I’m running late.

2.8.26 I’ll have the text ready by tomorrow.

2.9.26 It has been a hectic week, but I will have the text tonight.

2.12.26 I’m very sorry I missed the publication date: I got swamped.

Rubén Gallo is the Walter S. Carpenter, Jr. Professor in Latin American Literature at Princeton University, where he has taught since 2002. He is the author of many books on Twentieth Century culture, including Mexican Modernity: The Avant-Garde and the Cultural Revolution (2006, MIT Press, winner of the MLA’s Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize), Freud’s Mexico: Into the Wilds of Psychoanalysis (2010, MIT, winner of the Gradiva Prize), Proust’s Latin Americans (2014, Hopkins). He is also a novelist and was published two books on Cuba: Teoría y práctica de la Habana (2017) and Muerte en La Habana (2021). His work has been translated into French, Spanish, Italian, Japanese and Chinese. In 2020 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His new book, Skyscrapers in Havana: Architecture and Literature of the Cuban Revolution, will be published in 2027 by the University of Chicago Press. He is currently working on a new book on Freud and opera.