Year Admitted: 2019
Bio
Diego Alegría is a Doctoral Candidate in English at UW-Madison, with a Minor in Spanish and a Certificate in Public Humanities. He holds a BA in English Linguistics and Literature, and an MA in Literature from the University of Chile. His dissertation, “The Order of Words: Poetic Syntax in British Romanticism and Spanish American Modernismo,” examines the role of poetic syntax in the emergence of modern poetry as an autonomous cultural artifact and discursive formation for the Anglophone and Hispanophone worlds. His scholarly writings have appeared in Chasqui, Essays in Romanticism, and Anales de Literatura Chilena, among others. He is the author of two poetry books Raíz abierta (2015) and versare (2024), the bilingual chapbook y sin embargo los umbrales / and yet the thresholds (2019), and the essay collection Poética del caminar: Poems (1817) de John Keats (2023).
Interests
Poetry and Poetics, Nineteenth-Century Transatlantic Literature, Public Humanities
Degree and Institution
BA in English Linguistics and Literature, University of Chile
MA in Literature, University of Chile
MA in English (Literary Studies), University of Wisconsin-Madison
Selected Publications
Peer-Reviewed Articles and Book Chapters:
“Toward a Non-Appropriative Rhetoric: Julio Cortázar’s Reading of John Keats.” English Studies in Latin America, vol. 25, 2023, pp. 2-9.
“Habla profética, firma autobiográfica: Final de Canto General y La Araucana.” Chasqui, vol. 52, no. 2, pp. 231-45.
“‘Un ojo sin luz de nacimiento’: discapacidad de Caupolicán en La Araucana y Canto General.” Anales de Literatura Chilena, vol. 39, 2023, pp. 149-63.
“Modernismo or Transatlantic Romanticism: José Martí and William Wordsworth” (Lore Metzger Prize). Essays in Romanticism, vol. 28, no. 1, 2021, pp. 43-56.
Essay Collection
Poética del caminar: Poems (1817) de John Keats. Ril Editores, 2023.
Poetry Collection
versare. Ediciones Tácitas, 2024.
y sin embargo los umbrales / and yet the thresholds. Mago Editores, 2019.
Raíz abierta. Libros del Pez Espiral, 2015.