Rate My Professor Robert Wells

Wells's research specializations encompass 19th- to 21st-century Latin American and Spanish Peninsular studies, with a focus on historic avant-gardes especially in Argentina and Spain, Southern Cone studies, transatlantic studies, cinema studies, critical theory, and continental philosophy. His publications include scholarly articles such as “Orders and Disorders, Wills to Powers-Arlt and Nietzsche, the Astrólogo and the sociedad secreta” in Dissidences (2013), “Macedonio Fernández at the Front of the Rearguard” in Política común (2014), “The multitude: ambivalence and antagonism” in Rethinking Marxism (2014), “Dehumanized art and its window onto the world: Jose Ortega y Gasset and Pedro Salinas” in Bulletin of Hispanic Studies (2016), “Trauma, male fantasies, and cultural capital in the films of Pablo Larraín” in Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies (2017), “Zombie Bolaño: Revolution and the Undead in ‘El hijo del coronel’” in Hispania (2020), and “Todas las aguas el agua: The Water Within ‘La casa inundada’ by Felisberto Hernández” in Romance Quarterly (2024). He contributed a chapter, “It’s Complicated—Ortega y Gasset’s Relationship with Argentina,” to the volume Transatlantic Studies: Iberia, Latin America, and Africa published by Liverpool University Press in 2019. Wells has presented his research at academic conferences, including a paper titled “Writing on Painting: Vividness and the Void in ‘An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter’.”