Roberto Castillo Sandoval | Haverford College

Education

Ph.D. Harvard; A.M. Harvard; M.A., Vanderbilt; B.A., Kenyon

Biography

Roberto Castillo has taught in the Haverford College Department of Spanish since 1991. Before that, he was an Instructor in the History & Literature Program and in the Department of Romance Languages & Literatures at Harvard.

Among his most recent publications are:

–La novela del corazón (Laurel Editores, 2022). A novel.

–Muertes imaginarias (Laurel Editores, 2020) A novel made of fictional obituaries. Winner of the Círculo de Críticos de Arte de Chile award as Best Book of the Year in Fiction 2020.

–Wakefield, (Hueders, 2019). A translation into Spanish of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s selected short stories.

–“The Laws of Motion” (The Kenyon Review, May-June 2019), short fiction.

–Muriendo por la dulce patria mía (Libros del Laurel, 2017). A revised, augmented version of a novel originally published by Planeta in 1998.

–Bartleby, el escribano. Una historia de Wall Street (Hueders, 2017). A translation into Spanish of Herman Melville's Bartleby, the Scrivener.

–Antípodas (Cuarto Propio, 2014), Essays and chronicles, finalist for the Premio Municipal de Literatura de Santiago in the Essay category (2015).

Creative Writing and Scholarship

Prof. Castillo is a novelist, short fiction writer, essayist, and translator. His scholarly training and focus is in Colonial Spanish American Literature and Historiography. He wrote his dissertation on captivity narratives, particularly on the Cautiverio feliz, a Seventeenth-Century text written by a Chilean-born Spanish soldier captured by the mapuche in Wallmapu, located in the south of Chile. He is also interested in Nineteenth-Century Latin American political and literary thought; Ethnic, Race, and National Identity in Spanish America; Historical Fictions; Literature of Exile; Popular Culture; Music and Politics; Poetry and Politics. As an experienced author, he teaches Creative Fiction Writing. He regularly teaches courses in the Bryn Mawr-Haverford Comparative Literature Program.

Antípodas