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Dr. Diego Alegria

Dr. Diego AlegriaMarquette University

MilwaukeeWI53201United States of America(414) 288-3477diego.alegria@marquette.edu

Teaching Assistant Professor

I am a bilingual teacher/scholar and a Spanish-speaking poet from Santiago, educated at the University of Chile and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Trained as a comparativist, I teach and research modern poetry, world literature (the long nineteenth century), and literary theory, mainly in the U.K. and Latin America, and secondarily in the U.S. and Spain. I earned my Ph.D. in English (Literary Studies) from UW-Madison with a dissertation on the role of poetic syntax in the rise of modern poetry, with a focus on British Romanticism and Spanish American Modernismo. My research has appeared or is forthcoming in Chasqui, Essays in Romanticism, The Bloomsbury Handbook of Global Romantic Literature and Culture, and Anales de Literatura Chilena. As a bilingual instructor, I am committed to liberal arts and world literature by integrating creative practice, rhetorical purpose, and critical thinking in and beyond the classroom.

I am the author of two poetry books: Raíz abierta (2015) and versare (2024); one bilingual chapbook: y sin embargo los umbrales / and yet the thresholds (2019); and one essay collection: Poética del caminar: Poems (1817) de John Keats (2023). I have won multiple literary awards, such as the Juegos Literarios Gabriela Mistral Prize, the Pablo Neruda Poetry Fellowship, the Lore Metzger Prize in Romantic Studies, and the Lyman S.V. Judson and Ellen Mackechnie Judson Award in the Creative Arts, among others.

Courses Taught

· Foundations in Rhetoric

· Material Cultures

Research Interests

· Global poetics

· Modern poetry

· Romanticism (British, American)

· Modernismo (Latin American, Spanish)

· Literary Theory

· Disability Studies

· Public Humanities

Publications

“Colonial ambivalence, spatial representation: Alonso de Ercilla’s La Araucana and Helen Maria Williams’s Peru.” The Bloomsbury Handbook of Global Romantic Literature and Culture, December 2026.
versare [poetry collection]. Santiago: Ediciones Tácitas, 2024.
Poética del caminar: Poems (1817) de John Keats [Essay Collection]. Santiago & Barcelona: Ril Editores, 2023.
“Toward a Non-Appropriative Rhetoric: Julio Cortázar’s Reading of John Keats.” English Studies in Latin America, vol. 25, pp. 2-9, 2023.
“Habla profética, firma autobiográfica: Final de Canto General y La Araucana.” Chasqui, vol. 52, no. 2, pp. 231-45, 2023.
“‘Un ojo sin luz de nacimiento’: discapacidad de Caupolicán en La Araucana y Canto General.” Anales de Literatura Chilena, vol. 39, pp. 149-63, 2023.
Chacal Dorado / Golden Jackal. Written by Jessica Sequeira. Translated by Diego Alegría. Buenos Aires: Buenos Aires Poetry, 2022.
“Modernismo or Transatlantic Romanticism: José Martí and William Wordsworth” (Lore Metzger Prize). Essays in Romanticism, vol. 28, no. 1, pp. 43-56, 2021.
y sin embargo los umbrales / and yet the thresholds [Poetry Chapbook]. Santiago, Buenos Aires & Madrid: Mago Editores, 2019.
Medievario. Written by Cristián Cisternas Ampuero. Translated by Diego Alegría & Cecilia Jara. Santiago & Buenos Aires: Mago Editores, 2017.
Raíz abierta [Poetry Book]. Santiago: Libros del Pez Espiral, 2015.