Casey Gough

Casey Drosehn Gough received her B.A. from Williams College and holds a PhD from Northwestern University in Comparative Literary Studies. She teaches and thinks in English and in Spanish, and studies Modernisms and the Global Avant-Garde from a Latin Americanist perspective. She has published on literary Surrealism, on early peripheral concepts of “world cinema,” and on the Argentine author Roberto Arlt. Together with Federico Barea, she has translated Néstor Sánchez’s “Manhattan Island Notebook,” William Burroughs’s Retreat Diaries,  and The Criminalization of Democratic Politics in the Global South, published by Brill in 2023 with a foreword by Lula da Silva. She is currently working on a project about creative adaptations of works by James Joyce in the Americas. 

Selected Scholarship

“Joyce Yo hice:” Ulysses, Translation and the Lipogram in Marcelo Zabaloy’s Odiseo 

(Under review)

“Roberto Arlt and the Readers of Romance", Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos, 44, no. 2 (2020): 371–90.

“A Trip to the World Cinema: The Fantastic Spectators of Felisberto Hernández and Alberto

Mario Ferreiro,” Culture, Theory & Critique (2016): 1-13.

As Translator: Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, Raúl Zaffaroni, Cristina Caamaño, Valeria Vegh Weis, et al. The Criminalization of Democratic Politics in the Global South. Brill, 2023. 

As Translator: Néstor Sánchez, “Manhattan Island Notebook.” Asymptote. https://www.asymptotejournal.com/nonfiction/nestor-sanchez-manhattan-island-notebook/

Courses Taught

English 110