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Pedro Cuperman, Associate Professor of Spanish

Pedro Cuperman’s background draws to a large extent from his time as a philosophy student at Buenos Aires University. He sees his years as a teacher, scholar, and as a creative writer, as an extension somehow, of those first intellectual induce ments, indefinitely in need of upgrading. He thinks of himself as a revising machine, constantly correcting, rekindling, changing if necessary, all the received ideas and ready-made answers of his education, hopefully with the same care that some of his t eachers used to create a lasting literature. In his lectures on the Fantastic, and in his poetry, Borges used to talk about algebra and fire, which as we know today was a clever way of naming an old and ongoing renaissance ideal, which Professor Cuperman deeply shares.