Alberto Vital

Narrator, essayist and poet. He studied Literature at the FFyL of the UNAM. He has a Master's degree in Mexican Literature from the same faculty. He holds a PhD in Literature from the University of Hamburg, Federal Germany. He has taught at UNAM, UPN and Colegio Alemán. He also served as Coordinator of Humanities from 2015 to 2019. He is a full time researcher at the IIFL of UNAM. Member of the National System of Researchers, level II. Director of the Teaching Center for Foreigners (CEPE), UNAM. Winner of the 2001 Juan García Ponce Short Novel Award, from the Instituto Cultural de Yucatán, for Head-hunters. His research interests include: the lyric poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke, hermeneutic reading, the rescue of Mexican literary texts, the Theory of Literature, the Aesthetics of Reception and Hispanic American Literature, especially Jorge Luis Borges and Pablo Neruda. He has published 16 single-authored books on academic issues of pure research in literary studies and applied research in didactics of literature and language teaching.

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