Ignacio Infante (Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, Rutgers University) is Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature and Spanish. His main fields of research include 20th-century poetry and poetics, Peninsular cultural studies, transatlantic literary studies, comparative literature, and translation theory. 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). Prof. Infante has also published two literary translations, Una ola (Random House Mondadori, 2002)—a translation into Spanish of John Ashbery’s A Wave, and Cómo viven los muertos (Random House Mondadori, 2003)— a translation of Will Self’s How the Dead Live. His essay "Lirismo mecánico: sobre la maquinaria de reproducción ficcional en El Aleph de Jorge Luis Borges”—a lyric approach to Borges’ fiction—is forthcoming from Revista Hispánica Moderna (Penn Press).
Prof. Infante has recently completed his first book, entitled Transferring Poetics: Translation and the Circulation of Modern Poetry Across the Atlantic (under review). This book examines from a transnational and interlingual approach the Transatlantic flow of modern poetry and poetics, and includes chapters on poets Fernando Pessoa, Vicente Huidobro, Federico García Lorca, Kamau Brathwaite and Haroldo and Augusto de Campos. Currently, he is working on his second book project under the title Planetary Huidobro: The Transnational Routes of an Avant-Garde Poetics. This book examines the evolution of Huidobro’s poetics of creacionismo developed during the first half of the 20th century from an interdisciplinary and comparative theoretical framework.
Prof. Infante has been the recipient of Fulbright, and Getty international fellowships, among other academic honors. His courses for the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures have generally focused on 20th-century Spain and modern transatlantic literature. Some of his courses include the survey “Spanish Literature II,” and the graduate seminars “The Avant-Garde in Spain: Poetry/Cinema/Visual Arts,” and “Poetics and Politics in Democratic Spain.” He is currently one of the co-convenors of the reading group “Transatlantic Crossings” sponsored by the Center for the Humanities at Washington University. Since 2009, he has served as Latin Honors Coordinator in Spanish.
