People Associate Professor
Joint appointment, Comparative Literature
19th-20thC Latin American Poetry
Faculty
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Michelle Clayton
Professor
Office: Rolfe Hall 5318
Email: clayton@humnet.ucla.edu
Phone: 310-825-7750
Link to CV
Michelle Clayton holds a joint appointment in the departments of Spanish & Portuguese and Comparative Literature. She grew up in Dublin, Ireland, received her BA in Modern Languages (Spanish & German) from Oxford University, and earned her PhD in Spanish and Portuguese Languages and Cultures from Princeton University (2003). Her research and teaching focus on the intersection between Latin American and comparative studies, with a particular grounding in the international avant-gardes, and on relays between different art-forms (poetry, film, dance, painting) and the media of modernity in the Americas and Western Europe.
Her first book, Poetry in the Present Tense: César Vallejo and Lyric Modernity, which examines the Peruvian writer's poetry and prose in the light of the broader Latin American and European avant-gardes and contemporary theory, is forthcoming from the University of California Press. She is currently working on a second book, Moving Bodies of the Avant-Garde, which she began while on fellowship in 2008-2009 at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study in Cambridge, MA. The second project examines various forms of cultural circulation in the early decades of the twentieth century, aiming in particular to foreground the role of dance in the avant-gardes. By illustrating the diverse ways in which avant-garde culture moecd, and by comparing responses to circulating icons in Europe and the Americas, the project proposes a more interdisciplinary and transational approach to questions of cultural exchange.
Selected Publications
“Mariátegui y la escena contemporánea”, in Mabel Moraña, ed. José Carlos Mariátegui y los estudios latinoamericanos. Pittsburgh: IILI, Serie Críticas, forthcoming.
“Paciencia y barajar”, in Daniel Balderston, ed. Las novelas cortas de Onetti. UNESCO/Colección Archivos, 2009.
“Trilce’s Lyric Matters”, Revista de Estudios Hispánicos, XLII:1, January 2008, pp. 83-107.
“End of Story: Mario Vargas Llosa’s La guerra del fin del mundo”, in Efraín Kristal, ed. The Cambridge Companion to the Latin American Novel (Cambridge: CUP, 2005), pp. 283-294.
“Cómo habla la plata”, in Adriana Rodríguez Pérsico & Jorge Fornet, eds. Ricardo Piglia: una poética sin límites (Pittsburgh: U. of Pittsburgh, Serie Antonio Cornejo Polar, 2004), pp. 135-144.
