Reinaldo Laddaga (Rosario, 1963) is a professor at the University of Pennsylvania. He has also taught at Princeton University, the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro and the University of Rosario. He is the author of "The euphoria of Baltasar Brum" (1999), "Literature indigent and low pleasures. Felisberto Hernandez, Virgilio Piñera, Juan Rodolfo Wilcock" (2000), and numerous essays on art and literature.