Marcelo Pellegrini
Assistant Professor, Ph. D., University of California, Berkeley
Professor Pellegrini specializes in 19th and 20th Century Latin American
Poetry. His interests also include the Latin American Essay and Translation
Theory. His publications include several articles, reviews, translations,
interviews, and a critical edition of La miseria del hombre, Gonzalo
Rojas’ first poetry collection (in collaboration with Marcelo Coddou).
He has recently published a collection of his own poetry (La fuga, 2007),
and a book on Chilean poetry of the 1990s (Confróntese con la
sospecha, 2006). As a translator he has published La señal
de todas las cosas, Kenneth Rexroth’s first book-length poetry
collection in Spanish (in collaboration with Armando Roa Vial), a selection
of William Shakespeare’s Sonnets (Constancia y claridad, 2006)
and Figuras del original, a compilation of all his poetry translations
from English and Portuguese into Spanish. He is currently working on a book
about Gonzalo Rojas’ poetry.
