Zachary Rockwell Ludington

Research and Teaching Interests

Modern and contemporary Spanish Peninsular literature, avant-garde poetry in Iberia, transnational modernism(s), translation. My current book project is tentatively titled Avant-Garde Arcadia: Pastoral in Modern Iberian Poetry.

Peer-reviewed Journal Articles and Book Chapters

Ludington, Zachary Rockwell. “Trilce XLIV: A New Study in Metaphor.” Hispania (accepted; forthcoming).

Ludington, Zachary Rockwell. “The Complex Epigraph in Agustín Fernández Mallo’s Poetry.” Bulletin of Spanish Studies, vol. 101, no. 10, 2024, pp. 1519–1544. https://doi.org/10.1080/14753820.2024.2419772.

Ludington, Zachary Rockwell. “El viaje dionisíaco de Rosalía.” The Rosalía Effect: Popular Music and Culture in Contemporary Spain, edited by Rosalía Cornejo-Parriego and Michelle Murray, special issue of Romance Notes, vol. 63, no. 2, 2023, pp. 379–389. https://doi.org/10.1353/rmc.2023.a919729.

Ludington, Zachary Rockwell. “Spanish Ultraism’s Sacred Woman of the Future.” Futurism and the Sacred, edited by Günter Berghaus, Monica Jansen, and Luca Somigli, International Yearbook of Futurism Studies, vol. 11, 2022, pp. 201–224. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110752380-009.

Ludington, Zachary Rockwell. “Jorge Guillén’s Pastoral Search for the Lyric Present.” Revista de Estudios Hispánicos, vol. 55, no. 3, 2021, pp. 703–726. https://doi.org/10.1353/rvs.2021.0047.

Ludington, Zachary Rockwell. “The Modern Times of José Rivas Panedas’s Ultraísmo.” Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos, vol. 43, no. 2, 2019, pp. 351–374. https://doi.org/10.18192/rceh.v43i2.4655.

Ludington, Zachary Rockwell. “Ultraist Aggregation and Dada Agitation: Avant-Garde Attitudes in the Wake of War.” Dada/Surrealism, no. 22, 2018, article 6 (27 pages). https://doi.org/10.17077/0084-9537.1347.

Translations

Fernández Mallo, Agustín. Pixel Flesh. Translated by Zachary Rockwell Ludington, Cardboard House Press, 2020.

Reviewed in:

Kenyon Review Online (AM Ringwalt, September 2020)

Asymptote (Garrett Phelps, October 2020)

Angel City Review (Vicent Moreno, November 2020)

Rain Taxi Review (Greg Bem, April 2021)

SPAM (Eleanor Tennyson, June 2021)

World Literature Today (Honora Spicer, June 2021)

Electric Lit (Chris Campanioni, October 2024)

Huidobro, Vicente. “Eclogue” [with translator’s note, “Fleeces Among the Clouds: A Reflection on Translating Huidobro”]. Translated by Zachary Rockwell Ludington, Rustica, no. 3, winter 2025, p. 90.

Larrea, Pedro. “God,” “Gift,” and “Endless Cipher.” Translated by Zachary Rockwell Ludington, The Los Angeles Review, 9 March 2021. Web.

San Juan de la Cruz. Songbook. Translated by Zachary Rockwell Ludington, Bateau, vol. 9, no. 1, fall 2019, pp. 33–36.