Cintia Santana

Cintia Santana

Senior Lecturer of Comparative Literature
Ph.D., Harvard University
M.F.A., Sarah Lawrence College
B.A., University of California, Davis

Cintia Santana specializes in 19th and 20th Century Spanish literature, particularly in the cultural relationships between Spain and the United States. Her research interests include transatlantic and translation studies, the theory and praxis of the Latin American and Spanish short story, and Latin American and Spanish poetry. Her book, Forth and Back: Translation, Dirty Realism, and the Spanish Novel (1975-1995), was published by Bucknell University Press in 2013. Cintia's short stories, poems, and translations have appeared in Beloit Poetry Journal, Gulf Coast, Kenyon Review, Harvard Review, The Iowa Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, The Missouri Review, Narrative, Pleiades, Poetry Northwest, RHINO, The Spoon River Poetry Review, The Threepenny Review, and other journals. She is a CantoMundo fellow and a recipient of a Djerassi Resident Artist Program fellowship. Her collection of poetry, The Disordered Alphabet (Four Way Books 2023), was a finalist for the 2023 Golden Poppy Award, and received the 2023 Silver Medal in Poetry from the North American Book Awards 

 

 

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