Heather Cleary
Graduate Student
Heather Cleary Wolfgang completed both her B.A. and M.A. degrees in Comparative Literature at New York University. Her translations have appeared in various cultural journals such as the Borda Gardens ( Cuernavaca), The Literary Review and New York Tyrant. In 2005 she was awarded a Translation Fund grant from the PEN American Center for her work on Oliverio Girondo’s Persuasión de los días. More recently, she provided a translation for Palgrave Macmillan’s forthcoming volume, The Ethics of Latin American Literary Criticism: Reading Otherwise and presented a paper titled “A Poetics of Mediation: Oliverio Girondo’s Persuasion de los días” at the Fourth International Congress of Hispanic Poetry in Europe and the Americas at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada (an article based on this paper will appear in a forthcoming issue of AErea. Anuario Hispanoamericano de Poesía ). Her research interests include 19th- and 20th-century Spanish and Latin American literature, translation theory and practice, and literary theory.
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