Marcelo Pellegrini

Marcelo Pellegrini (Valparaíso, 1971) is a Chilean poet, essayist, and translator. His most recent verse collection is El doble veredicto de la piedra (Santiago de Chile: Das Kapital, 2011). As a translator he has published Constancia y claridad (2006), a selection of sonnets by William Shakespeare, and Figuras del original (2006), a book that compiles his Spanish translations of poems written in English and Portuguese. In the academic sphere, he has published Confróntese con la sospecha: ensayos críticos sobre poesía chilena de los 90 (2006) and La ficción suprema: Gonzalo Rojas y el viaje a los comienzos (2013). He is a regular collaborator of academic and literary journals in the United States as well as Latin America and Spain. He currently works as an Associate Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.