Ignacio Infante is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Spanish at Washington University in St. Louis. He is the author of After Translation: The Transfer and Circulation of Modern Poetics across the Atlantic (Fordham University Press, 2013). He has also translated into Spanish the US poet John Ashbery, A Wave / Una Ola (Lumen/Penguin Random House, 2003); and the British novelist Will Self, How the Dead Live / Co'mo viven los muertos (Random House Mondadori, 2003). His research in the fields of comparative literature, translation studies, modern and avant-garde poetics, and Hispanic studies has been published in numerous scholarly journals, such as Variaciones Borges, Revista Hispaánica Moderna, Modern Philology, Comparative Literature, Translation Review, and Modernism/modernity, among others.