Alejandra Quintana Arocho

Alejandra Quintana Arocho, PhD candidate

Department and School
Latin American and Iberian Cultures, Arts & Sciences

Advisor Name
Alberto Medina, Director of Graduate Studies and Professor of Latin American and Iberian Cultures

Bio
Alejandra is a Ph.D. student in Latin American and Iberian Cultures at Columbia University and is also pursuing a Graduate Certificate in Comparative Literature and Society. They hold a B.A. in Comparative Literature and Society from Columbia University and a MSt in Comparative Literature and Critical Translation from the University of Oxford. Her research focuses on medieval and early modern Iberian multilingual and translated texts, applying lenses like translation theory and cognitive linguistics to analyze conceptions of literary authorship and authority. She has sought to reimbue the role of the translator with textual agency and innovation, observing how the process of translation is steeped in and informs scholarly methods of constructing literary authority. As a translator, her recent translations and co-translations include Margarita Pintado Burgos’s Ojo en celo / Eye In Heat (UAP, 2024) and the 1922 edition of Gabriela Mistral’s Desolación (Sundial House, 2024).

Recommended book/podcast?
Kate Briggs “This Little Art”

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