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Claire Solomon ’98

  • Professor of Hispanic Studies and Comparative Literature

Areas of Study

Education

  • BA, 91ֱ College, 1998
  • MA, M.Phil, Yale University, 2001
  • PhD, Yale University, 2007

Biography

I teach all areas of modern and contemporary (19th-21st century) Latin American literature and culture, as well as courses in comparative literature, literary analysis, and theory.

Spring 2026

Intermediate Spanish II — HISP 203

Love and Death: Jewish Literature and Culture of the Americas — CMPL 365

Love and Death: Jewish Literature and Culture of the Americas — HISP 365

Love and Death: Jewish Literature and Culture of the Americas — JWST 365

Love and Death: Jewish Literature and Culture of the Americas LxC — HISP 366

Fall 2026

Capstone — HISP 501

  • 20th and 21st century Latin American and Comparative Literature
  • Literary and Cultural Theory
  • North and South American Yiddish Theater
  • Popular and Avant-garde Theater
  • Pop Culture
  • Continental and American Philosophy
  • Music and Music Theory
  • Gender Studies
  • Diaspora Studies

Book

  • Fictions of the Bad Life: The Naturalist Prostitute and Her Avatars in Latin American Literature, 1880–2010 (Ohio State UP, 2014)

Articles

  • “Yoga as World Literature: Somaesthetic Ekphrasis and (Mis)Translation.” Andrew Edgar and William Morgan, eds. Somaesthetics and Sport (Leiden: Brill, 2022): 183-209.
  • “Musical Comedy as Compromise Formation: Judío and Judía (1926), by Ivo Pelay.” In Geveb: A Journal of Yiddish Studies. Special Issue: Yiddish and the Transnational in Latin America (2021).
  • “Machine Translation and Translation Machines in Roberto Arlt’s Los siete locos (1929) and Los lanzallamas (1931).” Mutatis Mutandis: Revista Latinoamericana de traducción 11:2 (2018): 6-23.

Fiction and Music

  • Spacelord and Queen (libretto). Commissioned by the Louisville Orchestra. Music by Lisa Bielawa. Commissioned by The Louisville Orchestra. March, 2023.
  • Centuries in the Hours (libretto and film treatment). Music by Lisa Bielawa. Co-commissioned by Kaufman Music Center, May 2021.
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  • “A-1.” Waxwing Literary Journal 16 (Fall 2018). .

News

Teachable Moments

Nicolas Zamora’s 91ֱ experience prepared him for the classrooms of Spain.

Teaching the Cultural Aspect of Language

, Claire Solomon ’98 teaches courses in modern and contemporary (19th-21st century) Latin American literature and culture, comparative literature, literary analysis, and

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