Nationality Peruvian Name Alberto Baselli | Role Poet | |
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Born 24 February 1977
Lima, Peru ( 1977-02-24 ) Occupation poet, writer, scholar, professor Genre Poetry, short story, essay | ||
Alberto Augusto Valdivia Baselli (Lima, February 24, 1977) is a Peruvian poet, writer, essayist, literary scholar and specialist in Peruvian culture.
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Life and work
Valdivia-Baselli studied Hispanic Philology (Linguistics and Literature) at Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED) in Spain and a master's degree in Philosophy and contemporary thought at the European Higher Education Area system through UNED. He was accepted to the PhD program in Philosophy at the Complutense University of Madrid and at UNED (Spain). As a PhD student at the CUNY-Graduate Center, he studied at the PhD program in Iberian and Latin American Cultures of the University of Columbia, too (NYC). He is currently the recipient of a graduate teaching fellowship as from the Hispanic Language and Literature PhD program at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He currently works as a professor (at New York University, SUNY, CUNY) and as a literary scholar in the Centre for Peruvian Cultural Studies. Previously, Valdivia-Baselli taught Language Arts and Humanities at Peruvian schools and at the University of the Pacific (Peru); during more than seven years, he was also teacher and Head of the Spanish Department at the Italian Baccalaureate school Antonio Raimondi in Lima.
Valdivia-Baselli's research has focused on the literary and philosophical response to various aspects of Peruvian culture: political violence, socio-political topics, collective imagination, post-colonial estudies, epistemology of Latin America, utopia and ideology of resistance, and gender studies. Valdivia-Baselli has published numerous essays and poems in various specialized media outlets in Peru, such as Hueso Humero, Evohe and Hydra. Some of his work as been published abroad, in Argentina, Spain, Chile, France, Germany and the United States. He has been visiting professor at University of Miami, Montclair State University, Maison des Sciences de l'Homme (Paris), The Istituto Italo Lationoamericano di Roma, among others.
Valdivia-Baselli co-founded a specialized essay publication Hydra in 1999. Between 2002 and 2007 he directed the literary review Ajos & Zafiros. He co-directed the Peruvian Association for the Development of Reading (Leamos). Valdivia-Baselli is currently a member of the organizing committee of the Peruvian Center for Cultural Studies (CPEC - Centro Peruano de Estudios Culturales).