Martín L. Gaspar

Martín Gaspar’s research engages a wide range of fields that includes Latin American intellectual history since the 19th Century; modern Latin American fiction and contemporary film; translation studies; visibility in literature and the media; and narrative theory.

He is the author of La condición traductora (Beatriz Viterbo, 2014, second edition 2020), a historical and formal study of the rise of translator-heroes and narrators in Latin American fiction since the 1990s. His articles have appeared in the Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies, Variaciones Borges, and Latin American Literary Review, among others. He has also contributed chapters to volumes dedicated to translation, among them Translation and World Literature (Routledge, 2018), Voces en off. Traducción y literatura latinoamericana (Uniandes 2018) and the Routledge Handbook of Latin American Literary Translation Studies (Routledge, 2023). Beyond his research, he has co-authored the literary anthology Letras de hispanoamérica and the textbook Intrigas: Advanced Spanish Through Literature and Film.

Among his current projects are the coedited volume Latin American Literature and Culture in Translation (Bloomsbury Academic), and a set of articles on functions of anonymity in Latin American art, fiction, theatre, and film.

He has taught graduate seminars at the Universidad Nacional de Rosario (Argentina) and at the Summer Language Institute for Spanish Teachers in Guanajuato, Mexico. At Bryn Mawr, he teaches courses on literature of the Americas and Latin American literature, film, translation, art, and cultural studies.