Research Interests
Max Ubelaker Andrade's research explores the cultural contexts of literary visuality in 20th-century Latin America and the Early Modern period. He is the author of Borges Beyond the Visible (Penn State University Press, 2019) and the translator of N茅stor Ponce's Disappearance without absence (Waterloo Press, 2017) and boy says (punctum books, 2024). His essays have appeared in Variaciones Borges, Cervantes, AGNI, Chasqui, y La Naci贸n (Argentina).
Education
- Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) - Boston University
Biosketch
Ubelaker Andrade is Senior Editor of Canal, the digital, multilingual undergraduate journal of the Department of World Languages and Cultures.
Selected Publications
Books
- Author of . Penn State University Press, April 2019.
- Translator of N茅stor Ponce鈥檚 Disappearance without absence / Desapariencia no enga帽a (Waterloo Press 2017)
- Translator of N茅stor Ponce's boy says / Vos es (punctum books 2024)
Essays:
- "Literary Visuality and Islam in Borges." Approaches to Teaching the Works of Jorge Luis Borges, The MLA, 2025.
- "Gombrowicz, Borges y la trampa de un Cosmos cartogr谩fico." Tropel铆as, Vol. 10 (September 2024): 83鈥�96.
- "On Borges鈥檚 Blindness" (with Il谩n Stavans) in Translation as Home: A Multilingual Life (University of Toronto Press 2024)
(Also available in the open-access journal Amerika)
- "Borges and the Paper Kingdom." Chasqui Vol. 51.2 (November, 2022): 9-27.
- "Tennyson, Kipling and 'El Zahir.'鈥� Variaciones Borges Vol. 54 (October 2022): 43-60.
- "Beholding Black Light: Art & Visual Paradox in Don Quixote.鈥� Cervantes. Fall 2018.
- "El hornero." La Naci贸n. April 24, 2015.
- "Witold Gombrowicz: Cosmos y un mundo literario鈥︹�� La Naci贸n. August 8, 2014.
- "Felisberto Hern谩ndez: M煤sica, literatura y frutas salvajes.鈥� La Naci贸n. January 17, 2014.
- 鈥淏orges y la frontera difusa entre lo real y lo ficticio.鈥� La Naci贸n. June 21, 2013.
- 鈥淥n Coincidence, Collapse, and Textual Bridges.鈥� AGNI. Vol. 78, Fall 2013.
- "Palomas de Buenos Aires." La Naci贸n. February 15, 2013.
- 鈥淒on Quixote: Pain, Space, and Artifice.鈥� Cervantes. Vol. 32.2, Fall 2012.
- 鈥淭he Reader's Erasure in Jorge Luis Borges' 'La otra muerte.'鈥� Variaciones Borges. Vol. 34 (October 2012)
- 鈥淣煤meros, humo, y dinero: La canci贸n interminable.鈥� La Naci贸n. October 26, 2012.
Selected Presentations
- Centro Internacional Antonio Machado (CIAM). Soria (Espa帽a). Lecture title: 鈥淲itold Gombrowicz, Jorge Luis Borges, y la cartograf铆a liminal de Cosmos.鈥� Lecturer and participant in the international conference 鈥淟os l铆mites de la literatura/ la literatura en los l铆mites.鈥� July 19-20, 2023.脡cole normale sup茅rieure de Lyon. Lecture title: 鈥淛orge Luis Borges: Two Approaches to Literary Visuality.鈥� Lecturer and Panel Discussant in the international symposium: 鈥�(Critical) Blindness Studies: Current Debates and Future Directions/脡tudes (critiques) sur la c茅cit茅: d茅bats actuels et directions 脿 venir.鈥� June 30, July 1, 4 and 5, 2022
- Boston University. Lecture title: 鈥淏orges and the Paper Kingdom: Robert Burton鈥檚 The Anatomy of Melancholy and 鈥楲a biblioteca de Babel.鈥欌�� November 19, 2021.
- Ethical Culture Fieldston School. Lecture title: 鈥淩eimagining Borges鈥檚 Hexagonal Library.鈥� November 19, 2021.
- The Manipal Centre for European Studies鈥� Lecture Series at Manipal Academy of Higher Education. Lecture title: 鈥淒on Quixote鈥檚 Cartographic Vision: Mapping, Imagination and Political Identity.鈥� September 8, 2020.
- NeMLA Conference, Boston. Lecture title: 鈥淏orges鈥檚 Literary Theology: 鈥業slam鈥� and the Visible.鈥� March 7, 2020.
- NeMLA Conference, Washington D.C. Lecture title: 鈥淥n Tango Singers and Tour Guides: Tom谩s Eloy Mart铆nez鈥檚 El cantor de tango.鈥� March 23, 2019.
- Boston University. Translation Now Conference: Conversations on the Art of Literary Translation. Lecture title: 鈥淟iterary Translation as a Contested Site of Representation.鈥� September 29, 2018.
- Harvard University. Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning, Presentation and Panel Discussion. Lecture title: 鈥淥n Facilitation as Teaching: Participatory Pedagogy.鈥� June 27, 2018.
- Royal Holloway, University of London. Blind Creations: An International Conference on Blindness and the Arts. Lecture title: 鈥淎gainst Seeing: Jorge Luis Borges鈥� Literary Imagination.鈥� June 29, 2015.
- NeMLA Conference at Susquehanna University. Lecture title: 鈥淩eimagined Trauma, Sex and Intimacy: Borges鈥� 鈥楨mma Zunz.鈥欌�� April 5, 2014.
- Boston University, Writing in the Americas Seminar Lecture Series. Lecture title: 鈥淚slam and 鈥楨l Aleph鈥�: An Obscured Literary Theology.鈥�