Bruno Bosteels (born 1967, Leuven, Belgium) has served as a professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. As of 2024, Bosteels was Acting Dean of Humanities and Professor of the Department of Latin American and Iberian Cultures at Columbia University. He served until 2010 as the General Editor of diacritics. Bosteels is well known to the English-speaking world for his work on Latin American literature and culture and his translations of the work of Alain Badiou (a well-known French philosopher). One of Badiou’s key early philosophical texts, Theory of the Subject, appeared in 2009. This was Bosteels’s English translation of Théorie du sujet (originally published in France in 1982). Since then, Bosteels has translated at least seven more books by Badiou. Bosteels has research interests spanning contemporary philosophy, literary criticism, political and critical theory. He was awarded a 2024 Guggenheim Fellowship, recognized for his literary criticism.

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