Ben A. Heller

Associate Professor
Department of Romance Languages and Literatures
Vice Chair and Director of Graduate Studies
Co-Director, Fernández Caribbean Initiative
Fellow, Kellogg Institute for International Studies

Degrees

B.A., University of Pennsylvania; M.A., Ph.D., Washington University in St. Louis

Research Profile

Heller focuses on modern Spanish American and Caribbean literatures, particularly poetry, representations of nature and environmental criticism, and translation. He is the author of Assimilation, Generation, Resurrection: Contrapuntal Readings in the Poetry of José Lezama Lima (Bucknell University Press, 1997), co-editor with Elzbieta Sklodowska of Roberto Fernández Retamar y los estudios latinoamericanos (Instituto Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana, 2000), and contributing author to Huellas de las literaturas hispanoamericanas (Ed. John Garganigo, Prentice Hall, 1997, 2002). He has also edited the translation, Running Back Through the Rain/Corriendo bajo la lluvia: Selected poems, 1982-1998, by Chilean poet, Raúl Barrientos (Swan Isle Press, 2002, trans. Ben A. Heller and Christopher Maurer).

Contact Information

205 Decio Faculty Hall
631-6556
bheller@nd.edu
http://www.nd.edu/~romlang/faculty/heller.html