Fernando de Toro

Fernando de Toro is a Full Professor in the Department of English at the University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada. He was for five years Dean of the Faculty of Graduate Studies in the same university (Winnipeg, Canada). De Toro has published in diverse fields: literary theory, semiotics, comparative literature, post-modernity and post-coloniality, Latin American literature and Western Literatures.

Some of his publications include:

* "Brecht en el teatro latinoamericano contemporáneo" (Ottawa: Girol, 1984; Buenos Aires: Editorial Galerna, 1987)
* "Semiótica del teatro" (Buenos Aires, Galerna, 1987)
* "Theatre Semiotics" (Toronto/Frankfurt am Main: Toronto University Press and Vervuert Verlag, 1995)
* "Intersecciones" (Frankfurt am Main, Vervuert Verlag, 1999)
* "Explorations in Post-Theory" (Frankfurt am Main, Vervuert Verlag, 1999)
* "Borders and Margins" (Frankfurt am Main, Vervuert Verlag, 1999)
* "New Intersections" (Frankfurt am Main, Vervuert Verlag)
* "Intersecciones II" (Buenos Aires: Galerna, 2002).

He has published over one hundred refereed articles and delivered over four hundred lectures and international seminars. Currently he works in a project on the “Epistemological Foundations of Modern and Postmodern Architecture”. He is also has a collaborative project with the Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City on the “Post-Modern Condition in Mexico: architecture, theatre, literature, music, and painting.” He is currently completing a book entitled "Intersecciones III: Globalisation and Culture: Essays on Arquitecture, Painting, Music, Literautre and Theatre" to be published in Editorial Galerna at the end of 2008.