- Professor, Latin American, Iberian, and Latino Cultures
- Professor, French
- Professor, Comparative Literature
Research Interests
- Translation, 19th and 20th century Latin American and French literature, life writing (autobiography and biography), and issues in anglophone globalization.
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Affiliated Campus(es)
- Baruch College
- The Graduate Center, CUNY
Esther Allen is a writer and translator. She is a professor at Baruch College and in the Ph.D. Programs in French, Comparative Literature and in Latin American, Iberian and Latino Cultures at the CUNY Graduate Center. She directs Baruch’s Sidney Harman Writer-in-Residence Program.
Allen is a two-time recipient of National Endowment for the Arts Translation Fellowships (1995 and 2010) and was a 2009-2010 Fellow at the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library. In 2014-2015, she was a Biography Fellow at the Leon Levy Center for Biography, working on her forthcoming One Vast Question: The Life and Afterlife José Martí.
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Affiliated Campus(es)
- Baruch College
- The Graduate Center, CUNY