Olivia Lott

Olivia Lott joins the FAS as Assistant Professor of Spanish and Portuguese. She holds a PhD in Hispanic Studies, with a certificate in Translation Studies, from Washington University in St. Louis. She previously taught at Princeton University, Washington and Lee University, and Kenyon College. Lott is a scholar of modern and contemporary Latin American, Latinx, and hemispheric poetry and poetics, avant-garde networks, and translation, with particular emphasis on the 1960s and 1970s. Her book manuscript, Radical Re/Turns: Poetics of Translation in the Latin American Long Sixties, chronicles the revitalization of avant-garde activity across the Latin American continent and within the inter-American Cold War. Her scholarly writing has appeared (or will soon appear) in PMLA, Comparative Literature, Revista Hispánica Moderna, MLN, Translation Studies, and Chasqui. Lott is also an award-winning translator of Latin American poetry. Her translations have received recognitions from PEN America, Academy of American Poets, Words Without Borders, and University of Wisconsin Press. She currently serves as an advisory translation editor for SRPR.