Karen Elizabeth Bishop

Karen Elizabeth Bishop is a UK/US poet, translator, and scholar. Born in Birmingham, England, she grew up along Scotland's Moray Firth and in Southern California. She holds a B.A. in Literature from the College of Creative Studies and a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of California at Santa Barbara. Former Lecturer in History and Literature at Harvard, she is currently Associate Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature and chairs the Critical Translation Studies...See more

Karen Elizabeth Bishop is a UK/US poet, translator, and scholar. Born in Birmingham, England, she grew up along Scotland's Moray Firth and in Southern California. She holds a B.A. in Literature from the College of Creative Studies and a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of California at Santa Barbara. Former Lecturer in History and Literature at Harvard, she is currently Associate Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature and chairs the Critical Translation Studies Initiative at Rutgers University. Her scholarly work includes The Space of Disappearance: A Narrative Commons in the Ruins of Argentine State Terror (SUNY Press, 2020) and Cartographies of Exile: A New Spatial Literacy (Routledge, 2016). Current creative works include the book-length elegy Winter, Burn and a hybrid collection of pseudotranslation, essay, and original painting titled Salt. She is the publisher of Lampblack Press and divides her time between the wilds of New Jersey and Sevilla, Spain. See less