{"id":1496,"date":"2019-08-27T16:21:14","date_gmt":"2019-08-27T20:21:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/translation\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=1496"},"modified":"2025-11-21T09:18:44","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T14:18:44","slug":"alicia-borinsky","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/translation\/profile\/alicia-borinsky\/","title":{"rendered":"Alicia Borinsky"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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 <em>Low Blows\/Golpes Bajos<\/em> (short fictions), <em>Frivolous Women and Other Sinners <\/em>(poetry), both published bilingually, and <em>One Way Tickets: Writers and the Culture of Exile<\/em> (literary criticism). She 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<p><span>Selected Publications:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Borinsky A.(2011) <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/tupress.org\/books\/one-way-tickets\"><em>One-Way Tickets<\/em><\/a><span>. Trinity University Press.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Borinsky A. (2009)\u00a0<\/span><em><a href=\"http:\/\/press.uchicago.edu\/ucp\/books\/book\/distributed\/F\/bo6166756.html\">Frivolous Women and Other Sinners \/ Frivolas y pecadoras.<\/a>\u00a0<\/em><span>Swan Isle Press.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Borinsky A. (2007) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/w\/golpes-bajos-low-blows-alicia-borinsky\/1115101543?ean=9780299216009\"><em>Golpes Bajos \/ Low Blows<\/em>. <\/a>Univ of Wisconsin Press.<\/p>\n<p>Borinsky A. (2003)<a href=\"http:\/\/www.syracuseuniversitypress.syr.edu\/spring-2007\/point-contact-30.html\">\u00a0<em>Point of Contact<\/em>.<\/a> Syracuse University Press.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9557,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/translation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/1496"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/translation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/translation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/translation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9557"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/translation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/1496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1672,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/translation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/1496\/revisions\/1672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/translation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}