Dr. Rachel Galvin

Biography

Rachel Galvin is a scholar, poet, and translator specializing in twentieth- and twenty-first-century comparative poetics in English, Spanish, and French. Her research and teaching interests focus on comparative modernisms, hemispheric studies, U.S. Latinx literature, wartime literature, multilingual poetics, Oulipo, and translation theory and practice. Her book, News War: Civilian Poetry 1936-1945, critically explores civilian poets who confront the challenge of writing about war, including W. H. Auden, Marianne Moore, and César Vallejo. This work contributes to an understanding of civilian literatures during conflicts such as the Spanish Civil War and World War II, urging readers to take a critical stance toward wartime culture. Additionally, she is working on a new project exploring U.S. Latinx poetry and its connections across the Americas. Rachel maintains an active creative practice, publishing and performing poetry, translating works, and collaborating on creative translation projects. Her poetry collections include Elevated Threat Level and Pulleys & Locomotion, with poems published in notable journals such as The New Yorker, Poetry, and The Nation. Rachel is also a founding member of Outranspo, an international creative translation collective, and has held fellowships at the Newberry Library and Johns Hopkins University.

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