Faculty of Humanities

Diploma in World Literature

Dr. Enrique Banús Irusta

He holds a PhD in Philosophy and Letters (Comparative Literature) from RWTH Aachen University (Germany). He has taught at the Universities of RWTH Aachen and Bonn in Germany, and at the University of Navarra and the International University of Catalonia in Barcelona. He is a Full Professor in the Department of Cultural Management at UDEP and has been a visiting professor at universities in Rome, Mexico City, and Madrid. He has taught Arts Management since 1994 and also serves as director of the University Cultural Center and Cultural Heritage at UDEP.

Dr. César Ferreira

He holds a PhD in Latin American Literature from the University of Texas, is a full professor at the University of Wisconsin, and a corresponding member of the APL and the ANLE. He serves on the editorial board of the journals World Literature Today and Latin American Literature Today. He is the author of the book Culture and Customs of Peru (2003) and has edited volumes on the works of Alfredo Bryce Echenique, Edgardo Rivera Martínez, Julio Ramón Ribeyro, and others. He edited the collective work Los cuentos de Julio Ramón Ribeyro. Catorce textos críticos (URP, 2024).

Dr. Eduardo Hopkins Rodríguez

With a PhD in Peruvian and Latin American Literature from UNMSM, he is a full professor at PUCP and a member of the APL, as well as other academic societies. His research encompasses Spanish Golden Age literature, viceregal Spanish American and Peruvian literature, 20th-century Peruvian narrative, and drama. He has published *Metaphorical Convictions*, *Colonial Poetics*, *Only Literature*, and numerous articles in specialized journals.

Dr. Javier de Navascués Martín

DPhD from the University of Navarra, where He is a professor of Latin American Literature. His lines of iresearch are the l20th-century Argentine literature, lPeruvian literature of the 20th century, populism and literature, and écolonial pica. He won the Juan Rulfo Prize for Latin American literary criticism (2002). Ddedicated to the study of different Latin American writers such as Leopoldo MarechalAdolfo Bioy Casares, Julio Ramón Ribeyro, andtc. Publicchapters in specialized books and articles in high-impact journals, and among his books areNew World Adventurers (2023), The imaginary city (2007), The refuges of memory (2004).

Dr. Crisanto Pérez Esain

Doctor of Hispanic Literature and Literary Theory from the University of Navarra. Author of monographs and articles on narrative theory and contemporary Peruvian literature, such as Traces in the Mirror: Identity and Writing in the Narrative of Julio Ramón Ribeyro; «"The hand that wields the pen. The intertext and its authors»; The short stories of Julio Ramón Ribeyro, a reading guide and July in El Rosedal, memory of a writing; as well as «Chords for a utopia in Land of Cockaigne. Cultural syncretism as a solution in Edgardo Rivera Martínez». 

Dr. Javier de Navascués Martín

DPhD from the University of Navarra, where He is a professor of Latin American Literature. His lines of iresearch are the l20th-century Argentine literature, lPeruvian literature of the 20th century, populism and literature, and écolonial pica. He won the Juan Rulfo Prize for Latin American literary criticism (

Dr. Manuel Prendes

He holds a degree in Hispanic Philology from the University of Oviedo and a doctorate in Hispanic Philology from the University of La Rioja. He is a Professor of Spanish and World Literature in the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Piura. Among other research topics, he has studied Latin American literature of the period of the Independence and the chronicle of the Indies. He has edited the Praise to the corregidor Valdiviezo, a baroque play written in Piura in the 18th century. 

Dr. Enrique Sanchez Costa

Professor at the Faculty of Humanities of CEU San Pablo University (Madrid). Recipient of the Extraordinary Doctoral Prize in Humanities from Pompeu Fabra University (UPF, Barcelona). Author of The Catholic revival in modern European literature (1890-1945) (Ediciones Encuentro, 2014), also published in English translation by Peter Lang (2018), and some fifteen academic articles on comparative literature and intellectual history. He has undertaken research stays in Washington DC, London, Paris and Barcelona and has a six-year research period recognized by ANECA. 

Dr. Renato Sandoval Bacigalupo

Poet, translatoressayist and sinologist. He holds a PhD in Romance Philology from the University of Helsinki and is a member of the Ricardo Palma Institute (URP). In addition to Chinese literature, his research interests include...Germanic, French, and Peruvian literatures. He has translated works by Rainer Maria Rilke, Franz Kafka, Edith Södergran, Salvatore Quasimodo, Pia Juuletc. Public the trials The Fire Sentinel. Agony and Death in Eguren (1988), PtyxEielson in the snail (2008) and Eguren's motives. Between Heidegger and Bergson. 

Dr. Ricardo Silva-Santisteban

Translator, editor, literary critic and poetDPhD in Literature from the UNMSM yes principal professor of PUCP and full member of the APL. He wrote about literature, in addition to focusing on in lyric poetry in Spanish, French and English, specialmind works by Stéphane Mallarmé, William Shakespeare and José María Eguren. Public more than 200 books, including translations, essays, critical editions and poems own, highlighting The cursed poetsThe Children of Mud and Fire: A Poetic Anthology of French Romanticism. Soon will publish his translation of the tragedy Macbeth by Shakespeare. 

Dr. Jorge Valenzuela Garcés

DPhD in Hispanic American Literature from the Complutense University of Madrid and principal professor of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the UNMSM. Her research focuses on Peruvian and universal narrative of the 20th century. Pposted A Precarious World: An Essay on the Work and Writing of Franz Kafka, winning text of the 2022 Copé Essay Prize. And he is the author of critical studies Handbook of Latin American LiteratureThe world of the classics. Readings of Rodó, Stuart Mill and Vargas LlosaCommitted Principles. Mario Vargas Llosa between literature and politics, Fiction and freedom.  

Dr. Jorge Wiesse Rebagliati

DPhD from the University of Navarra, Literature professor at the UP and professor of Medieval Spanish Literature at the PUCPYoResearch associate at the U Research CenterP and a regular member of the Riva-Agüero Institute. He integrates reading. Dantis Limensis, which is animated and directed by Carlos Gatti. Edited books and articles published about the Divine Comedy and about the work of Dante Alighieri. His book Dante contemplates the Trinity won the prize of Italianistic Ennio FlaianMyordinary embro of Dante Society of America and honorary member of the Società Italian Dantesque.