Zachary Rockwell Ludington

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

Office Hours

Tuesday and Wednesday mornings via Zoom or 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.

Publications

Articles

• 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.
• “Spanish Ultraism’s Sacred Woman of the Future.” In 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.
• “Jorge Guillén’s Pastoral Search for the Lyric Present.” Revista de Estudios Hispánicos, vol. 55, no. 3, 2021, pp. 703–726. Project MUSE muse.jhu.edu/article/846333
• “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
• “Ultraist Aggregation and Dada Agitation: Avant-Garde Attitudes in the Wake of War.” Dada/Surrealism, no. 22, 2018, article 6. https://doi.org/10.17077/0084-9537.1347
• “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
• “‘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. 371–92. https://doi.org/10.18192/rceh.v40i2.1843
• “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.
• “El sueño siniestro de don Félix de Montemar.“ RILCE: Revista de Filología Hispánica, vol. 28, no. 2, 2012, pp. 469–91.

Translations

• Fernández Mallo, Agustín. Pixel Flesh, Cardboard House Press, 2020.
• San Juan de la Cruz. Selections from Songbook, Bateau, vol. 9, no. 1, Fall 2019, pp. 33-36.
• Larrea, Pedro. The Free Shore. Nueva York Poetry Press, 2018.
• Operé, Fernando. Day Outwits the Clocks. Valparaíso Ediciones, 2017.
• Fernández Mallo, Agustín. Poetry selections from Joan Fontaine Odisea and Ya nadie se llamará como yo. Numéro Cinq, vol. VIII, no. 3, 9 March 2017.
• Fernández Mallo, Agustín. Pixel Flesh (selections). PEN America, no. 18, May 2015, pp. 98–99.
• García Casado, Pablo. “Ithaca” and “The Poem of Jane.” Drunken Boat, no. 21, April 2015.
• García Casado, Pablo. “Workmanship,” “1972,” and “Birds in the night.” Exchanges, Winter 2015.
• Fernández Mallo, Agustín. Pixel Flesh (selections). TWO LINES Online, no. 20, May 2013.
• González Subías, José Luis. “Nineteenth-Century Spanish Theatre. The Birth of an Industry.” In A History of Theatre in Spain. Eds. María Delgado and David Gies. Cambridge University Press, 2012, pp. 211–243.