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Rachel Galvin is an Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of Chicago's Division of the Humanities, specializing in transnational poetry and poetics across English, Spanish, and French. Her interdisciplinary work bridges literary scholarship, creative practice, and translation studies while maintaining affiliations with the Center for Latin American Studies, Center for the Study of Race Politics and Culture, and Committee on Creative Writing.
Her educational background includes a PhD from Princeton University (2010), followed by prestigious fellowships at the Newberry Library (NEH/Andrew W. Mellon) and Johns Hopkins University (Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship). These experiences shaped her focus on diaspora studies and hemispheric literary exchange.
Galvin's research explores how poetic form engages with political crises, particularly examining civilian perspectives on war, multilingual identity construction, and cross-cultural translation practices. Her work reveals how formal constraints in movements like Oulipo intersect with socio-political critique, while her hemispheric approach challenges national literary boundaries through studies of U.S. Latino/a poetry and trans-American literary networks. Key methodologies include archival analysis of periodical culture and comparative textual studies of poetic recycling.
Her publications demonstrate consistent engagement with modernist legacies and contemporary poetic innovation, particularly in how poets navigate mediated war experiences and construct belonging through linguistic hybridity. The recurring themes across her work include ethical witnessing, transcultural poetics, and the political dimensions of formal experimentation.
- John N. Serio Award for best article in Wallace Stevens Journal (2013)
- Scott Moncrieff Prize for French Translation (2014)
- Boston Globe recognition as best poetry book of the year (2014)
Galvin actively mentors emerging scholars through her role as Associate Literature Editor for ASAP/Journal and has secured significant research support through Mellon and NEH fellowships. Her collaborative projects include the OuTransPo international translation collective, which fosters creative cross-linguistic exchange through constraint-based methodologies. Current initiatives center on Hemispheric Poetics, examining identity construction through literary relationality and political critique across the Americas.
