Olivia Lott is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Yale University. She is a scholar of comparative Latin American and hemispheric poetry and poetics, avant-garde networks, and translation, with particular emphasis on the 1960s and 1970s. Her in-progress book, Translating Revolution: Radical Poetry in the Latin American Sixties, examines the intersections of avant-garde poetics and revolutionary politics during the “long 1960s” in Latin America. She is also the 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 in 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 is currently an advisory translation editor for SRPR.
Before arriving at Yale in 2024, she was a Marilyn Yarbrough Fellow at Kenyon College, Visiting Assistant Professor of Spanish at Washington and Lee University, and Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Program in Latin American Studies at Princeton University. At Yale, she teaches courses on 20th and 21st century Latin American and U.S. Latinx literatures and cultures.
For more on her work, visit: www.oliviamlott.com