At Princeton, he has organized conferences on "Radio and the Avant-Garde" (2003) and "Stadiums: Athletics, and Aesthetics" (2004), and "Freud and 20th Century Culture" (2010).[4]
In the winter semester of 2009–2010, Gallo was the Fulbright–Freud Visiting Lecturer in Psychoanalysis at the Sigmund Freud Museum in Vienna, Austria, and he presented the seminar "Freud at Large: The Cultural Reception of Psychoanalysis in Latin America and Beyond" in the Institute for History at the University of Vienna.[5][6] He now serves on the board of directors of the Freud Museum Vienna.[3]
He decided to write a book about Freud's relationship with Mexico and Freud's influence on Mexican poets and artists, because while there were already books about Freud in Russia, France, and Argentina, there was none about Mexico.[5] He first became acquainted with Freud through a seminar of Julia Kristeva.[7]
Gallo's Princeton faculty page states that "he teaches courses on Freud, the avant-garde, and other aspects of twentieth-century culture".[3]
^Diane E. Davis (August 2006), "Reviewed work: The Mexico City Reader, Rubén Gallo", Journal of Latin American Studies, 38 (3), Cambridge University Press: 669–672, JSTOR3875898
^Judith Adler Hellman (Winter 2006), "Reviewed work: The Mexico City Reader, Ruben Gallo", Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos, 30 (2): 398–400, JSTOR27764070
^Susanne Eineigel (Fall 2009), "Reviewed work: Mexican Modernity: The Avant-Garde and the Technological Revolution, Rubén Gallo", Material Culture, 41 (2), Pioneer America Society: 103–105, JSTOR29764548
^David William Foster (May 2007), "Reviewed work: Mexican Modernity; the Avant-Garde and the Technological Revolution, Rubén Gallo", Chasqui, 36 (1), Chasqui: revista de literatura latinoamericana: 148–150, JSTOR29742170
^Gradiva award winners(PDF), National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis, p. 3, archived from the original(PDF) on 2014-03-05
^Steinberg, Samuel (Spring 2012), "Reviewed work: Freud's Mexico: Into the Wilds of Psychoanalysis, RUBÉN GALLO", Hispanic Review, 80 (2), University of Pennsylvania Press: 334–337, doi:10.1353/hir.2012.0023, JSTOR41472669, S2CID144194856
^Hind, Emily (2012), "Rubén Gallo, Freud's Mexico: Into the Wilds of Psychoanalysis (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2010). 389pp. ISBN: 9780262014427", Modernist Cultures, 7 (1): 132–135, doi:10.3366/mod.2012.0031, ISSN2041-1022