Rachel Kaufman
Biography
Rachel Kaufman is a PhD Candidate in Latin American & Jewish History. Her poetic and historical work explore diasporic memory and the ways in which literary and historical works transmit the past, and her dissertation focuses on the Mexican Inquisition and cross-ethnic networks of female religious ritual. Her poetry book, Many to Remember (Dos Madres Press, 2021) explores how poetics can translate the archive into new form. Her poetry has appeared on poets.org and in the Harvard Review, Southwestern American Literature, Western Humanities Review, JuxtaProse, The Journal, and elsewhere, and her prose has appeared in The Los Angeles Review of Books, Rethinking History, The Yale Historical Review, Diagram, and Comedia Performance: Journal of the Association for Hispanic Classical Theater.
Publications
(2021): Many to Remember (Dos Madres Press) – Poetry Book
(2023): “Sound and Sense: Poetic Form and Translating Sor Juana’s Amor es más laberinto.” Comedia Performance 20(1): 118–127.
(2023): “Crypto-Jewish Poetry in New Mexico, post 1992.” In Jews Across the Americas: 1492-Present. New York: NYU Press.
(2023): Love is the Greater Labyrinth: A Comedy by Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz. Newark, DE: Juan de la Cuesta. (co-translator)
(2020): “Translating History,” Rethinking History
For more poetry and prose, please visit: rachel-kaufman.com
