Zachary Rockwell Ludington

216 Williams Hall
University of Maine
Orono, Maine 04469
Phone: 207-581-2079
zachary.r.ludington@maine.edu

Office Hours

Monday, 1-2; Tuesday, 11-12; by appointment.

Courses taught at UMaine

  • MLC 201
  • SPA 101 – Elementary Spanish I
  • SPA 203 – Intermediate Spanish I
  • SPA 204 – Intermediate Spanish II
  • SPA 305 – Applied Spanish
  • SPA 306 – Workshop in Speaking and Writing
  • SPA 307 – Readings in Peninsular Literature
  • SPA 401 – Golden Age
  • SPA 403/503 – Cervantes
  • SPA 414 – History of the Spanish Language
  • SPA 415 – Feminism and Literature
  • SPA 416 – Modernism(o) + Avant-Garde
  • SPA 419/519 – Rebels & Realists in 19th-Century Literature
  • SPA 444/544 – Theory & Techniques of Translation

Education

  • Ph.D. in Spanish, University of Virginia
  • M.A. in Spanish, University of Virginia
  • B.A. in Romance Languages and Journalism, UNC-Chapel Hill

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.

Journal Articles and Book Chapters

  • 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.
  • Ludington, Zachary Rockwell. “Where is Spain? The rappel à l’ordre and the Poetry of Lucía
    Sánchez Saornil.” Hispanófila, vol. 180, 2017, pp. 91–107.
    https://doi.org/10.1353/hsf.2017.0032.
  • Ludington, Zachary Rockwell. “‘Encajadas las formas’: Avant-Garde Material Poetics in Manuel
    Altolaguirre’s ‘Poema del agua.’” Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos, vol. 40,
    no. 2, 2016, pp. 371–392. https://doi.org/10.18192/rceh.v40i2.1843.
  • Ludington, Zachary Rockwell. “Les belles infidèles: Self-Translation and Myth in Rosario
    Ferré’s Two Isoldas.” Latin American Literary Review, vol. 41, no. 82, 2013, pp. 93–108.
    Ludington, Zachary R. “El sueño siniestro de don Félix de Montemar.” RILCE: Revista de
    Filología Hispánica, vol. 28, no. 2, 2012, pp. 470–492.

Translations (books)
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)

Larrea, Pedro. La orilla libre/The Free Shore. Translated by Zachary Rockwell Ludingt  Nueva York Poetry Press, 2018.

Operé, Fernando. Day Outwits the Clocks. Translated by Zachary Rockwell Ludington, Valparaíso Ediciones, 2017.

Translations (in literary magazines)

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.

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

Fernández Mallo, Agustín. “The Expression of Loss – Poems.” Translated by Zachary Rockwell
Ludington, Numéro Cinq, vol. VIII, no. 3, 9 March 2017. Web.

Fernández Mallo, Agustín. Pixel Flesh (selections). Translated by Zachary Rockwell Ludington,
PEN America, no. 18, May 2015, pp. 98–99.

García Casado, Pablo. “Ithaca” and “The Poem of Jane.” Translated by Zachary Rockwell
Ludington, Drunken Boat, no. 21, April 2015. Web.

García Casado, Pablo. “Workmanship,” “1972,” and “Birds in the night.” Translated by Zachary
Rockwell Ludington, Exchanges, winter 2015. Web.

Fernández Mallo, Agustín. Pixel Flesh (selections). Translated by Zachary Rockwell Ludington,
TWO LINES Online, no. 20, May 2013. Web.