Dr. Olivia Lott

Biography

Olivia Lott is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Yale University, specializing in 20th and 21st-century Latin American literatures and cultures. She earned her Ph.D. in Hispanic Studies from Washington University in St. Louis in 2022. Lott's research interests encompass Latinx literatures, comparative hemispheric literatures, poetry and poetics, along with the exploration of avant-garde movements and networks during the 1960s and 1970s. Her in-progress book manuscript, 'Translating Revolution: Radical Poetry in Latin America Sixties', examines the intersection of avant-garde poetry and the revolutionary activities amidst the power struggles of the inter-American Cold War. She is also co-editor of a multivolume project titled 'Cultural History of the Avant-Garde in Latin America and the Caribbean', which is currently under contract with Brill. Her scholarly writings have been featured in notable publications including PMLA and Comparative Literature. Additionally, Lott has translated and co-translated five books of Latin American poetry into English, receiving accolades from entities such as the Academy of American Poets and PEN America for her contributions in literary translation. Prior to joining Yale, she served as the Marilyn Yarbrough Fellow at Kenyon College and held positions at Washington and Lee University and Princeton University.

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