Professor of Latin American and Comparative Literature
Alicia Borinsky is a literary scholar, fiction writer, and poet. She has published extensively in Spanish and in English in the United States, Latin America, and Europe. Her most recent book, One-Way Tickets: Writers and the Culture of Exile (Trinity University Press, 2011), is framed by a meditation on being a Jewish Latina. She is currently working on Walter Benjamin’s often contradictory relationship to his Jewish roots.