Ignacio Infante

Ignacio Infante received his Ph.D. from Rutgers University in 2009 and is currently Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature and Romance Languages and Literatures. His main fields of research include 20th-century poetry and poetics, literary theory, Translation Studies and Peninsular cultural studies. He has published articles on the cinema of Julio Medem (Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies), Spanish-American modernismo, and the fiction of Jorge Luis Borges (Variaciones Borges). He has also translated into Spanish the work of John Ashbery (Una ola, 2003) and Will Self (Cómo viven los muertos, 2003) both published by Random House Mondadori. Professor Infante is currently completing a book project tentatively entitled Poetics of Transfer: Translation, Cosmopolitanism and the Intermedial in 20th-century Transatlantic Poetry that examines from a transnational and interlingual perspective the literary history of the Transatlantic flow of modern poetry and poetics. He has been the recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship and has taught courses on literary theory, world literature, 20th-century Peninsular literature and culture, and Transatlantic modernisms.