Christine Legros

Research interests: 20th and 21st-century Latin American poetry, fiction, and autobiography; queer and gender studies; women writers and the canon; world literature; translation.

Christine Legros is a PhD Candidate in Romance Languages and Literatures at Harvard University. Her dissertation explores the intersections of feminist and queer aesthetics, avant-garde experimentation, and transatlantic intellectual exchange in Southern Cone literature of the 1970s and 1980s, with particular attention to the sexual politics of the neobarroco. Before beginning her doctoral studies, she completed an M.A. in Spanish and Latin American Literature at the University of Barcelona, where she wrote her thesis on Alejandra Pizarnik’s personal library.

Her work on Alejandra Pizarnik has appeared in the Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, and an article on Elena Garro is forthcoming in Hispanic Review. She is also the translator of Elena Garro’s “The Week of Colors,” published in Asymptote. Her research has taken her to Argentina, Spain, Mexico, and France, including research stays at El Colegio de México and the École normale supérieure in Paris.