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Domingo Alberto Vital Díaz, Ph.D.

Domingo Alberto Vital Díaz obtained his doctoral degree in Literature at the University of Hamburg; previously, he did his Master in Mexican Literature and his bachelor in Hispanic Language and Literature at UNAM.

As a researcher attached to the Seminar on Hermeneutics of the Philological Research Institute, he has studied the work of Rulfo, Rilke, Borges, Neruda and García Márquez, among others, within various theoretical lines such as reception theory, hermeneutics, comparative literature, The pragmatics of literary communication and onomastics. He has worked in the rescue of important texts of Mexican literature, among which are included some of authors like Juan Rulfo and Victoriano Salado Álvarez.

He lectures at the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters, at the undergraduate and graduate levels. He has published research books as El arriero en el Danubio. Recepción de Rulfo en el ámbito de la lengua alemán; Quince hipótesis sobre géneros; Noticias sobre Juan Rulfo o Un porfirista de siempre. Victoriano Salado Álvarez (1867-1931). He has also published literary works such as Teatro de ángeles, Jardín errante and Headhunters.

He was elected director of the Philological Research Institute (IIFL) of the UNAM in 2013, a position he had to leave to occupy, in December 2015, the Humanities Coordination of the same institution.

Main lines of research:

    ● Vida y obra de Juan Rulfo
    ● Vida y obra de Victoriano Salado Álvarez
    ● Vida y obra de Rainer María Rilke



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