Department of Romance Languages and Literatures (light reception to follow in Emerson 106)

 Daniel Aguirre is a scholar of modern Spanish Peninsular literature and culture with broad interests in Spanish, Latin-American, and American Poetry. His research focuses on the interplay of poetics, ethics, and politics, particularly as they relate to recent debates about historical memory in transatlantic contexts. His current project explores contemporary readings of literary testimonies of Spanish Republican experiences of exile, considering them from a transnational perspective. His theoretical framework draws on recent concepts in sociological memory studies, particularly multidirectional memory and cosmopolitan memory. He has published articles in various peer-reviewed journals, such as Hispanófila, 1661: Journal of Translation History, Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos, and Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature. 

Originally from Pamplona in northern Spain, he attended undergraduate college at the University of Salamanca, then earned a Diploma of Higher Studies in Literature at the Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona. He pursued graduate study in Hispanic Literatures at Harvard, earning his Ph.D. in 2010.

Books:

El salto a lo desconocido: yo lírico y negatividad dialéctica en la poesía de la modernidad (Editorial Academia del Hispanismo, 2013). 

El canto de la desaparición: memoria, historia y testimonio en la obra de Antonio Gamoneda (Editorial Devenir, forthcoming 2015).

Translations into Spanish:

Poetry by A. R. Ammons, John Ashbery, Samuel Beckett, Wallace Stevens, Shel Silverstein, and W. B. Yeats. 

Prose by Lawrence Block, Douglas Coupland, Peggy Guggenheim, Elmore Leonard, Jay McInerney, and Annie Proulx, among others.