Diego Alegría

Pronouns: he/him/his

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. Alegría is currently completing his dissertation on the role of poetic syntax in the formation of modern poetry, particularly in the literature of British Romanticism and Spanish American Modernismo. His scholarly writings have appeared or are forthcoming in “Chasqui,” “Essays in Romanticism,” “Anales de Literatura Chilena,” and “The Routledge Handbook to Global Literature and Culture in the Romantic Era,” among others. He is the author of two poetry books “Raíz abierta” (2015) and “versare” (forthcoming, 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:

“Colonial ambivalence, spatial representation: Alonso de Ercilla’s ‘La Araucana’ and Helen Maria Williams’s ‘Peru’” (Chair’s Ph.D. Essay Prize). The Routledge Handbook to Global Literature and Culture in the Romantic Era. Edited by Arif Camoglu, Gaura Narayan, Omar F. Miranda, Bakary Diaby & Kate Singer, Routledge, forthcoming.

“Habla profética, firma autobiográfica: Final de ‘Canto General’ y ‘La Araucana.’” Chasqui, vol. 52, no. 2, 2023, pp. 231-245.

“‘Un ojo sin luz de nacimiento’: discapacidad de Caupolicán en ‘La Araucana’ y ‘Canto General.’” Anales de Literatura Chilena, vol. 39, 2023, pp. 149-163.

“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.” Santiago & Barcelona: Ril Editores, 2023.

Poetry Collection

“versare.” Santiago de Chile: Ediciones Tácitas, forthcoming 2024.

“y sin embargo los umbrales / and yet the thresholds.” Santiago, Buenos Aires & Madrid: Mago Editores, 2019.

“Raíz abierta” (Premio Municipal Juegos Literario Gabriela Mistral). Santiago de Chile: Libros del Pez Espiral, 2015.