Daniel Balderston received an international recognition

The Academia Argentina de Letras named faculty member Daniel Balderston an académico correspondiente — corresponding academic.

The title recognizes “his remarkable and continued work as a diffuser of Argentine literature in the United States, with particular attention to the work of Jorge Luis Borges,” said José Luis Moure, the academy’s president. Balderston is the Mellon Professor of Modern Languages in the Department of Hispanic Languages and Literatures within the Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences. Founded in 1931, the academy serves as a repository of scholarship relating to Argentine literature and to the special characteristics (grammatical and lexical) of the Spanish spoken in Argentina.