Jonathan Pitcher, Spanish
Pitcher, a scholar of Latin American literature, philosophy, and history, joined the Bennington faculty of the Isabelle Kaplan Center for Languages and Culture in fall 2004. He is primarily a Spanish Americanist and has also worked in Portuguese. He has published articles on Carlos Fuentes, Jorge Luis Borges, Fernando Pessoa, British modernism, and translations of articles on critical theory. He has worked in Madrid, Barcelona, Buenos Aires and São Paulo, and has taught at University College London, the University of Southern California, and the University of Miami. Since arriving at Bennington, he has delivered lectures on hybridity, feminism, contemporary art, Borges, and semiotics, and was most recently the keynote speaker at a series of conferences on collective memory at the Instituto de Historia of the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, Chile. He has offered both Spanish and interdisciplinary courses on identity, exile, film, politics, travel, art, architectural ideology, puppetry, and the aftermath of the Boom. BA, (Hons) University of Bristol; MA, King's College London; PhD, University College London.
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