Joseph Rager es doctorando en Literatura Comparada en la University of California, Berkeley, donde se especializa en las literaturas española, francesa e hispanoamericana. Es licenciado por Harvard University en Lenguas y Literaturas Romances y en Lingüística. Anteriormente se desempeñó como asistente de investigación en el Observatorio del Instituto Cervantes en Harvard University, y ha traducido al inglés obras de dos escritores españoles contemporáneos: David Jiménez Torres (https://cervantesobservatorio.fas.harvard.edu/en/translation-corner/041-bad-sleep-essay-sleeping-wakefulness-and-exhaustion-excerpts) y Javier Gomá (https://cervantesobservatorio.fas.harvard.edu/en/translation-corner/046-concrete-universal-exemplaritys-method-ontology-pragmatics-and-poetics). Su investigación actual explora los cambios intelectuales en torno a la corporalidad, la sexualidad y la legitimidad del conocimiento sensorial en España y Francia a lo largo del siglo XX. Este será su tercer año en Middlebury.
Joseph Rager is a doctoral student in Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley, where he specializes in Spanish, French, and Hispanic literatures. He holds a Bachelors degree in Romance Languages and Literatures and in Linguistics from Harvard University. Previously he worked as a research assistant for the Observatorio of the Instituto Cervantes at Harvard University. He has also published two English translations from contemporary Spanish writers David Jiménez Torres (https://cervantesobservatorio.fas.harvard.edu/en/translation-corner/041-bad-sleep-essay-sleeping-wakefulness-and-exhaustion-excerpts) and Javier Gomá (https://cervantesobservatorio.fas.harvard.edu/en/translation-corner/046-concrete-universal-exemplaritys-method-ontology-pragmatics-and-poetics). His current research explores the intellectual changes around corporality, sexuality, and the legitimacy of sensorial knowledge in 20th-century Spain and France. This is his third year working at Middlebury.