Alberto Valdivia Baselli
| Alberto Valdivia Baselli | |
|---|---|
| Born |
24 February 1977 Lima, Peru |
| Occupation | poet, writer, scholar, professor |
| Nationality | Peruvian |
| Genre | Poetry, short story, essay |
Alberto Augusto Valdivia Baselli (Lima, February 24, 1977) is a Peruvian poet, essayist, literary scholar and specialist in Peruvian culture.
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 trough 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 took courses in the PhD program in Iberian Cultures of the University of Columbia. 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 university professor (at Fordham University, SUNY, CUNY) and literary scholar as part of the research group 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); 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 studies, epistemology of Latin America, utopia and ideology of resistance, women's studies, poststructuralist thought and aesthetic ontology, hermeneutics and politics and philosophy of language. Valdivia-Baselli has published essays and poetry in various specialized media 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 performed as poet and speaker around the world. 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-directs 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).
Works
- La región humana [The Human Region] (BCR, 2000) (Fondo Editorial del Banco Central de Reserva del Peru, 2000), foreword by Ricardo González Vigil (Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru).
- Patología [Pathology] (Osis Editores, 2000; Editorial Nido de Cuervos, 2004) foreword by Julio Ortega (Brown University, USA).
- Alberto Valdivia-Baselli & Gonzalo Portals (Ed.)Sombras de vidrio: estudio y antología de la poesía escrita por mujeres 1989-2004 [Glass Shadows: A study and anthology of poetry written by women 1989-2004], in Ajos & Zafiros #6
- Quartier ascendant (Nouvelle lune) (ed. Plaine Page, Marseille, 2007), bilingual chapbook.
- Entre líneas pudicas [Between Chaste Lines] (ed. Lustra, 2008 / Colección Piedra/Sangre - Spanish International Cooperation Agency [AECID]).
- Neomenia (Ed. Trashumantes of the CPEC, 2013). Poetry (foreword by Jose Antonio Mazzotti (Tufts University, USA).)
- Los tejidos detrás (Ed. Trashumantes of the CPEC, 2013). Short stories (foreword by Julio Ortega (Brown University, USA).)
Anthologies
- Poetry
- Poesía peruana siglo XX [20th century Peruvian Poetry], Copé 1999, ed. Ricardo González Vigil
- Aldea Poética (Madrid, 1997, ed. Gloria Fuertes)
- Poesía viva del Perú, Antología de la poesía peruana contemporánea (University of Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, 2005)
- En tous lieux nulle part ici, Anthologie de la Biennale Internationale des Poètes 2005 (Paris, 2006), among others.
Sources
- Hofstra Hispanic Review. Issue: Vol. 2 N. 4 Spring 2007
- Galerna Issue: N. 5 2007(Literary Review)(Departament of Spanish and Portuguese Literatures, Montclair University, NJ)
- Pterodactilo Issue: Vol. 3 N. 4 Fall 2005 (Literary Review)(Departament of Spanish and Portuguese Literatures, University of Texas in Austin)
- Ricardo González Vigil. Poesía Peruana Siglo XX. 2 vol. Lima: Copé Ed., 1999
- Diccionario Biográfico del Perú Contemporáneo. 2 vol. Lima: Milla Batres Ed., 2004)
External links
- Páginas del Perú
- Colegio Italiano Antonio Raimondi
- Leamos
- Centro Peruano de Estudios Culturales
- Poetry by this author included in the Hofstra Hispanic Review (EE.UU.)
- Poetry by this author in La Jornada Semanal anthology (Mexico)
- Poetry by this author in the poetry section of Pterodactilo magazine (U. Texas at Austin, EE.UU.)
- Poetry by this author at hablador.com (Peru)
- Poetry by this author at Urbanotopia (Peru)
- Poetry by this author in Palavreiros (Brazil)
- Poetry by this author in Cyber Humanitatis (Magazine of Philosophy and Humanities from the University of Chile)
- Poetry by this author in Je suis un homme livre (France)
- Poetry by this author translated to French I – Biennale des Poètes (France)
- Poetry by this author translated to French II - Biennale des Poètes (France)
- Ajos & Zafiros in Paginas del Peru
- Publications by this author in Perubookstore.com
- “Sombras de vidrio: estudio y antología de la poesía escrita por mujeres 1989-2004” (Glass Shadows: A study and anthology of poetry written by women 1989-2004)
- Analysis on poetry in the 90s in Peru – Poems by this author
- Revista Ajos & Zafiros