{"id":24321,"date":"2022-09-16T13:13:22","date_gmt":"2022-09-16T17:13:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/rs\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=24321"},"modified":"2026-08-03T10:37:38","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T14:37:38","slug":"pedro-alejandro-lopez","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/rs\/profile\/pedro-alejandro-lopez\/","title":{"rendered":"Alejandro L\u00f3pez"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>Born in Buenos Aires (Argentina), Alejandro and his family arrived in the United States in 1986. Fifteen years later, he moved to Lausanne, Switzerland, where he lived for more than a decade. Once back in the US and after 35 years in the corporate world, Alejandro decided to dedicate his &#8220;second youth&#8221; to his first love: Literature. He obtained a Certificate in Translation from the University of Massachusetts, Boston, followed by an MFA in Literary Translation from Boston University. He is currently a doctoral candidate in Romance Studies, writing a dissertation \u2014 <em>Admiraciones e intuiciones para la reconstrucci\u00f3n del canon: Ensayos en rizoma<\/em> \u2014 that proposes a rhizomatic rereading of the Latin American literary canon through an original theoretical framework he calls <em>transconsciencia<\/em>. His scholarly work has appeared in Harvard University&#8217;s Observatorio del Instituto Cervantes, and his research on translation and canon formation is cited in a forthcoming book from Johns Hopkins University Press. His academic interests span comparative literature, literary theory, and translation studies, with a focus on twentieth- and twenty-first-century texts. His work proceeds from what he calls a posici\u00f3n <em>filoliteraria<\/em> \u2014 in both senses of the term: a passion for literature, and the place where philosophy and literature fall in love.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1714,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/rs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/24321"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/rs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/rs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/rs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1714"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/rs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/24321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27435,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/rs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/24321\/revisions\/27435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/rs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}