Martín L. Gaspar

Martín L. Gaspar serves as Associate Professor of Spanish and Co-Director of Comparative Literature at Bryn Mawr College, specializing in Latin American intellectual traditions, literary theory, and transnational cultural production.

Education:

• Ph.D., Harvard University
• M.A., Harvard University
• M.A., Northeastern University

Research Focus: His scholarship examines translator-heroes in contemporary Latin American fiction, anonymity mechanisms across art/film/theatre, and intersections of visibility theory with media studies. Key contributions include analyzing 19th-century intellectual history frameworks and narrative structures in post-1990s Iberian-American literature.

Publications: Authored La condición traductora (2014/2020), co-edited Letras de hispanoamérica, and developed the textbook Intrigas: Advanced Spanish Through Literature and Film. Contributed to Routledge Handbook of Latin American Literary Translation Studies (2023) and Translation and World Literature (2018) with chapters on transnational translation theory.

Current Work: Co-editing Latin American Literature and Culture in Translation (Bloomsbury) while researching anonymity functions in Latin American artistic production across multiple media forms.

Teaching: Instructs literature of the Americas, film studies, and cultural theory courses at Bryn Mawr; previously taught graduate seminars at Universidad Nacional de Rosario (Argentina) and Mexico's Summer Language Institute for Spanish Teachers.