Bruno Bosteels

Bruno Bosteels is the author of half a dozen scholarly books written in English, French, and Spanish and translated into German, Korean, Serbian, and Japanese. Among his best-known books are Badiou and Politics, The Actuality of Communism, Marx and Freud in Latin America, and The Mexican Commune. Trained in Belgium in philology, which Antonio Gramsci once described as “the methodological expression of the importance of particular facts understood as definite and precise ‘individualities,’” he is also the English translator of more than half a dozen books by the French philosopher Alain Badiou as well as of a major book on Sigmund Freud by the Argentine philosopher León Rozitchner. He teaches in the Department of Latin American and Iberian Cultures and the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society at Columbia University, where he is the Jesse and George Siegel Professor in the Humanities and Acting Dean of Humanities. With the support of the Fellowship, he plans to write a short book on the so-called novel of the Mexican Revolution, in the understanding that literature in the broad sense constitutes a set of forms of the real through which we grasp and make sense of our social reality in the first place.