Sergio Ugalde Quintana

WINTER, SPRING 2025

Sergio Ugalde Quintana is Professor at the Center for Linguistic and Literary Studies at El Colegio de México. His research and teaching interests are 20th century Latin American essays and poetry, seen from the perspective of intellectual history. He holds a Ph.D. in Hispanic literature from El Colegio de México and a Habilitation in Romance literatures and languages from the University of Potsdam, Germany. 

Prof. Ugalde has been Visiting Professor at the Universidad de la República (Udelar, Uruguay) and at the Universidade Federal do Paraná (UFPR, Brazil). From 2007 to 2019 he was Professor of Latin American Literature at the Facultad de Filosofía y Letras of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, where he directed for three years the School of Latin American Studies. During different periods he has been a fellow in Germany, thanks to funding from the DAAD and the Humboldt Stiftung. He is a member of Mexico's National System of Researchers and has edited 11 books, including collective volumes, epistolary and text rescues. He is the author of: La poética del cimarrón (Aimé Césaire y la literatura del Caribe francés) (Conaculta, Mexico, 2007), La biblioteca en la isla. Una lectura de La expresión americana de José Lezama Lima (Colibrí, Madrid, 2011) and Filología, creación y vida: Alfonso Reyes y los estudios literarios (El Colegio de México, Mexico, 2024). 

Professor Ugalde is teaching the course ILAC 168: Nature, landscape, and catastrophes in Mexican literatures of the 20th and 21st centuries in winter quarter, 2025.