Peter Taylor

Peter is a first-year doctoral student in Comparative Literature, working primarily on the Americas (North and South). His interests include the poetics of the North and South American popular song, the environmental humanities/eco-criticism, contemporary Latin American poetry and fiction, and both the practice and theory of translation. 

Before college, Peter volunteered for a year in the Fundación Abril, a non-governmental organization organizing around issues of water access and urban community agriculture in Cochabamba, Bolivia. He studied Comparative Literature at Princeton, with minors in Creative Writing and Latin American studies. After graduating he lived and traveled through South America for two years, including on an English Teaching Assistantship in Minas Gerais, Brazil as a Fulbright Fellow. 

Languages: English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, & Quechua (in progress)