Katherine Hedeen came to Kenyon College in 2001. Her teaching and research interests include Spanish-Caribbean literatures and cultures, U.S. Latino literatures, and gender, post-colonial and translation studies, along with all levels of Spanish language. In addition to her academic endeavors, her work as a literary translator has appeared in some of the most prestigious and well-known journals in America. Among her most recent publications is The Infinite's Ash/ Ceniza de infinito (London: Arc Publications, 2008), a selection of Víctor Rodríguez Núñez's early poetry, which she translated and introduced. In collaboration with Rodríguez-Núñez, she is Co-Editor of the Earthworks Series, Latin American Poetry in Translation for Salt Publishing, UK, and has published book-length translations in English of the notable Spanish American poets Juan Gelman, Ida Vitale and Juan Calzadilla. Hedeen is a recent recipient of the National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship: Translation Project, for 2009-10.

Education

Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin
M.A., University of Oregon
B.A., Western Oregon University

Selected Publications

Articles

"Poetry from the South: Gender and Decolonization in Carilda Oliver Labra." Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos. Forthcoming.

"La cubana en la poesía: Género y nación en Fina García Marruz." Revista Iberoamericana. Forthcoming.

"Poesía desde el sur: Género y descolonización en Carilda Oliver Labra." Temas: Cultura, Ideología, Sociedad 48 (2006): 120-129.

"Género y etnicidad en Georgina Herrera." La Gaceta de Cuba 1 (2004): 42-46.

Reviews

"Decolonizing Culture: Visual Arts, Development Narratives and Performance in the Americas." Latin American Research Review 40: 3 (2005): 244-53.

Translations

Books
The Infinite's Ash. By Víctor Rodríguez Núñez. Introduction, Selection and Translation. London: Arc, 2008.

Diary with No Subject. By Juan Calzadilla. Selection, Introduction and Translation. With Rodríguez Núñez. Cambridge: Salt, 2008.

The Poems of Sidney West. By Juan Gelman. Introduction and Translation. With Rodríguez Núñez. Cambridge: Salt, 2008.

Garden of Silica. By Ida Vitale. Selection, Introduction and Translation. With Rodríguez Núñez. Cambridge: Salt, 2008.

Flight of the Cat: A Novel. With Rodríguez Núñez. By Abel Prieto. Havana: José Marti, 2005.

El silo: Una sinfonía pastoral. With Víctor Rodríguez Núñez. By John Kinsella. Havana: Arte y Literatura, 2005.

América o El Resplandor. With Rodríguez Núñez. By John Kinsella. Havana: Torre de Letras, 2005.

Poems and Short Stories
Selections from América o el resplandor. With Rodríguez Núñez. By John Kinsella. Alforja (2008). Forthcoming.

"Nights". By Víctor Rodríguez Núñez. New York Quarterly 64 (2008). Forthcoming.

"So Swift "and "Love Is Worthy of This." With Rodríguez Núñez. By Abelardo Linares. The Kenyon Review Winter 2008. 87-88.

"Epilogue". By Víctor Rodríguez Núñez. New York Quarterly 63 (2008): 101.

"Metaphysics," "To the Memory Of," and "Snapshot". By Rodríguez Núñez. The Bitter Oleander 13:5 (2007): 100-5.

"The Horizon". By Abilio Estévez. With Víctor Rodríguez Núñez. New Short Fiction from Cuba. Jacqueline Loss and Esther Whitfield, eds. Northwestern University Press. 2007. 171-192.

At the Point of Bursting. By Rodríguez Núñez. Translation Chapbook and Introduction, 42. Mid-American Review 27:1 (2007): 95-115.

"Marco Polo's Dilemma". By Rodríguez Núñez. The Kenyon Review 28-2 (Spring 2006): 155.

"Entrance," "Hypothesis," "Poem for Emily," and "Tarot". By Rodríguez Núñez. Denver Quarterly 40-3 (2006): 111-14.

"At Times". By Rodríguez Núñez. New York Quarterly 62 (2006): 98-99.

"Countersign" and "Certainties". By Rodríguez Núñez. Chelsea 79 (2005) 195-96.

"Naval Engineering" and "Cantina in Cochabamba ?or "Llorando se fue". By Rodríguez Núñez. The Cream City Review 29: 1 (2005): 103-106.

"Eulogy for the Neutrino". By Rodríguez Núñez. The Literary Review 48: 2 (2005): 44-45.

"Prologue" and "Logic". By Rodríguez Núñez. The New England Review 25: 1-2 (2004): 89-91.

"Juana" and "Here". With Rodríguez Núñez. Where is Fernández? and Other Poems. By Roberto Fernández Retamar. Havana: José Martí, 2000. 218-21 and 234-35.

Courses Taught

SPAN 381 Resisting Borders: Contemporary Latino/a Literature
SPAN 382 From the Empire's Backyard: Literature of the Spanish Caribbean
SPAN 325-326 Introduction to Spanish American Literature
SPAN 338 Survey of Contemporary Spanish American Narrative