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Sebastián Andrés Grandas

3rd Year Graduate School Student
Comparative Literature

Biography

Sebastián Andrés is pursuing his Ph.D. in comparative literature. His scholarship explores translingual poetics and self-translation—with a special interest in the way Latiné & Latin American artists experiment across and in-between languages, sonic-visual mediums, and material forms.

Research Interests

translingual poetics, experimental translation, avant-Latino, Latin American avant-gardes, mourning & melancholia, negativity/repair, interior intersubjectivity

Recent Publications

Review, Bodies Found in Various Places / Cuerpos encontrados en varias partes: The Selected Poems of Elvira HernándezWorld Literature Today 100.3: 57-58.

Sergio Ramírez, from On Crowds & CorruptionNew England Review 45.3-4: 84-86, translated from Spanish.

Self-Translation, (Anti-)Translation: Roque Raquel Salas Rivera’s Poem 45 CEA Critic 86.3: 210-15.

Contact Info

sebastian.grandas@yale.edu

Education

M.A.R., Yale
M.A., Middlebury
B.A., Middlebury

Working Languages

  • English
  • Spanish
  • Russian
  • Portuguese
  • Ëtyö