I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Yale University. My research and teaching take a comparative approach to modern and contemporary Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx literature and culture, with a particular focus on poetry and poetics, avant-garde movements, and translation. I am especially interested in the transnational networks that connect literary and cultural production across the Americas and in the relationships among aesthetic experimentation, revolutionary culture, and political thought.

Before joining Yale, I held positions at Princeton University, Washington and Lee University, and Kenyon College. I received my Ph.D. in Hispanic Studies, with a certificate in Translation Studies, from Washington University in St. Louis in 2022.

Contact me: olivia.lott@yale.edu