Olivia Lott

Olivia Lott is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Yale University. She is a scholar of modern and contemporary Latin American and hemispheric poetry and poetics, avant-garde movements and networks, and translation. Her in-progress book manuscript, Translating Revolution: Radical Poetry in the Latin American Sixties, explores how avant-garde poetry scenes registered and responded to the revolutionary tasks of the long 1960s and the power struggles of the inter-American Cold War. She is also a co-editor of the multivolume project, A Cultural History of the Avant-Garde in Latin America and the Caribbean (under contract with Brill). Her scholarly writing has appeared or is forthcoming from PMLA, Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry, Comparative Literature, MLN, Revista Hispánica Moderna, among other venues.

In addition to her scholarly work, Lott is the translator or co-translator of five books of Latin American poetry into English. Her translations have earned recognitions from Academy of American Poets, the American Literary Translators Association, PEN America, Words Without Borders, and University of Wisconsin Press. She currently serves as an advisory translation editor for SRPR.

Before arriving at Yale in 2024, she was Marilyn Yarbrough Fellow at Kenyon College, Visiting Assistant Professor of Spanish at Washington and Lee University, and Postdoctoral Associate in the Program in Latin American Studies at Princeton University.

Areas of Research and Teaching: 20^th and 21^st-century Latin American literatures and cultures; US Latinx literatures and cultures; comparative hemispheric literatures; poetry and poetics; avant-garde movements and networks; the 1960s and 1970s; the Cold War; US imperialism in Latin America since 1898; translation studies and theory; literary translation

Website: www.oliviamlott.com