{"id":11196,"date":"2015-09-04T12:33:42","date_gmt":"2015-09-04T16:33:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/rs\/?post_type=profile&p=11196"},"modified":"2026-06-22T15:41:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T19:41:10","slug":"alicia-borinsky","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/rs\/profile\/alicia-borinsky\/","title":{"rendered":"Alicia Borinsky"},"content":{"rendered":"

Research and Teaching<\/h2>\n

Professor Alicia Borinsky is a fiction writer, poet and literary critic who has published extensively in English and Spanish in the United States, Latin America and Europe. Her most recent books are Low Blows\/Golpes Bajos<\/em> (short fictions), Frivolous Women and Other Sinners <\/em>(poetry), both published bilingually, and One Way Tickets: Writers and the Culture of Exile<\/em> (literary criticism). Professor Borinsky is the recipient of several awards, including the Latino Literature Prize for Fiction and a John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship.\u00a0 Her research interests include the theory and practice of literary translation, trans-national cultural studies, contemporary gender and literary theory, Latino literature and the legacy of the Latin American avant-garde from Huidobro to Borges and the writers of the \u201cBoom\u201d to the present. \u00a0She is the Director of the Summer Cultural Studies Program in Buenos Aires.<\/p>\n

Selected Publications<\/h2>\n

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\nBorinsky, A. (2015) Lost Cities Go to Paradise\/Las ciudades perdidas van al para\u00edso<\/a><\/em>. Swan Isle Press.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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\nBorinsky, A.(2011) <\/span>One-Way Tickets<\/em><\/a>. Trinity University Press.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\nBorinsky, A. (2009) <\/span>Frivolous Women and Other Sinners \/ Frivolas y pecadoras.<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>Swan Isle Press.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\nBorinsky, A. (2007) Golpes Bajos \/ Low Blows<\/em>. <\/a>Univ of Wisconsin Press.<\/p>\n

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\nBorinsky, A. (2003) Point of Contact<\/em>. Syracuse University Press.<\/p>\n

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