Rachel
Galvinholds a PhD in
Comparative Literature from Princeton University, where
she currently teaches a seminar titled "Witnessing War." In fall 2012 she will join the Humanities Center at The Johns Hopkins University as an Andrew W. Mellon Fellow.Her dissertation won the Sidonie Clauss Memorial Dissertation Prize. Her current book project, a comparative study titled Poetry and the Press in
Wartime (1936-1945), argues that print journalism offered an unexpected model
for wartime poetry and poetics during the tumultuous period spanning from the
Spanish Civil War through World War II. Essays are forthcoming in The Blackwell Companion to Translation Studies and the Los Angeles Review of Books.
Rachel was a Michener Fellow
at the
University of Texas at Austin and a Fellow at the Virginia Center for
the
Creative Arts and Hedgebrook. Her poems and translations appear in
journals including The New Yorker, McSweeney’s, Drunken Boat, and Gulf
Coast. She is the author of a chapbook of poems, Zoetrope (2006),
and
her first book of poems, Pulleys & Locomotion, was published
by Black
Lawrence Press in 2009. (Click here for a press release from the publisher.)That
collection is being translated into French and Spanish, and a dossier of
poems will be featured this year in the Buenos Aires journal, Diario de Poesía, translated by Mariana Di Ció.Hitting the Streets, Rachel's translation of Raymond Queneau’s Courir les rues,
is forthcoming from Carcanet Press (2013). Her new collection of poems, Lost Property Unit, was a finalist for the 2011 National Poetry Series and Alice James Book's 2011 Kinereth Gensler Award.
