{"id":10868,"date":"2025-10-29T09:00:16","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T13:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/?p=10868"},"modified":"2025-10-29T11:39:56","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T15:39:56","slug":"ruben-dario","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/ruben-dario\/","title":{"rendered":"Rub\u00e9n Dar\u00edo: A Latin American Poet at Notre Dame"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

by Mar\u00eda Rosa Olivera-Williams, Professor of Latin American Literature and Cultural Studies, Faculty Fellow of the Kellogg Institute, Fellow of the Nanovic Institute<\/em><\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rare Books and Special Collections houses one of the most comprehensive yet least explored collections dedicated to Rub\u00e9n Dar\u00edo. The Nicaraguan poet is a central figure in Latin American and world literature; however, many of his texts have deteriorated over time, and reliable academic editions of his works are scarce. Under the direction of Mar\u00eda Rosa Olivera-Williams, the University of Notre Dame has partnered with the Archivo Rub\u00e9n Dar\u00edo Ordenado y Centralizado<\/a><\/em> at the Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero in Argentina to produce four critical editions of Dar\u00edo’s writings. Since 2022, the Rub\u00e9n Dar\u00edo Collection<\/a> has been the site of multiple research projects led by Olivera-Williams that have included significant digitization and stabilization work of the materials by RBSC staff. <\/p>\n\n\n

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These projects have resulted in compelling findings that have been widely celebrated by the international academic community. The first of these projects culminated in the publication of Opiniones<\/em> in 2024, a collection of Dario’s journalistic writings accompanied by an introduction and critical annotations from the renowned essayist Graciela Montaldo<\/a> of Columbia University. The book received the seal of excellence from the MLA Committee on Scholarly Editions<\/a>, which guarantees the publication’s philological rigor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Rub\u00e9n Dar\u00edo Collection played a key role in the development of the book because it provided access to the original publications of its chapters, which appeared in the pages of the Argentine newspaper La Naci\u00f3n<\/em> between 1904 and 1906. The collection also preserves a lesser-known portrait of Rub\u00e9n Dar\u00edo that was used as a medallion on the back cover of La vida de Rub\u00e9n Dar\u00edo escrita por \u00e9l mismo<\/em> (The Life of Rub\u00e9n Dar\u00edo Written by Himself), a critical edition published in 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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La Naci\u00f3n Suplemento Ilustrado<\/em>, April 1903 (MSN\/LAT 0092-30)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Photograph of Rub\u00e9n Dar\u00edo, July 1912 (MSN\/LAT 0092-10)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe Rub\u00e9n Dar\u00edo: Critical Editions Project\u201d has received tremendous support from a broad community of specialists at numerous international conferences and seminars. At these events, various members of the project team presented significant advances in their research. These conferences include the International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association (2024 and 2025), the International Congress of Comparative Literature at Adolfo Ib\u00e1\u00f1ez University (2024), the International Congress of the Modern Language Association (2025), and the Northeast Modern Language Association conference (2025). Attendees have praised the project for its comprehensiveness and rigor, the quality and depth of its research, and its potential to open new avenues of inquiry in different fields. Our work has also revitalized studies in the field of literary modernism. As a result of this project, several team members have published works in the form of dossiers or individual articles in specialized journals, with more in progress. Notably, the monographic issue of the journal Chuy<\/a><\/em>, coordinated by Olivera-Williams in 2024, has emerged as a significant achievement.<\/p>\n\n\n

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In late October 2025, the University of Notre Dame will host the international symposium “Rub\u00e9n Dar\u00edo in Between: traducci\u00f3n, creaci\u00f3n, poder.”<\/a> The conference will feature world-renowned specialists eager to participate in future debates and projects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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As part of the symposium, the Hesburgh Library will present the latest developments in the publication of Rub\u00e9n Dar\u00edo’s prose works, including the critical edition of Peregrinaciones<\/em>, edited by Beatriz Colombi of the University of Buenos Aires. This edition was made possible by the materials in the Rub\u00e9n Dar\u00edo Collection at Notre Dame and will be presented by Rodrigo Caresani, one of the directors of the Complete Works<\/em> project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

by Mar\u00eda Rosa Olivera-Williams, Professor of Latin American Literature and Cultural Studies, Faculty Fellow of the Kellogg Institute, Fellow of the Nanovic Institute Rare Books and Special Collections houses one of the most comprehensive yet least explored collections dedicated to Rub\u00e9n Dar\u00edo. The Nicaraguan poet is a central figure in Latin American and world literature; … Continue reading Rub\u00e9n Dar\u00edo: A Latin American Poet at Notre Dame<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1936,"featured_media":10893,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5065,75054,12646],"tags":[73938,156,77929,77941],"class_list":["post-10868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","category-latin-american-studies","category-miscellaneous","tag-manuscripts","tag-news","tag-periodicals","tag-rbsc-scholars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1936"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10868"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10908,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10868\/revisions\/10908"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}