Roberto Castillo Sandoval
Roberto Castillo Sandoval is a Chilean author, translator and professor of Spanish an Comparative Literature at Haverford College in Haverford, Pennsylvania. His degrees include a Ph.D. and A.M. from Harvard University, an M.A. from Vanderbilt University and a B.A. from Kenyon College.
He has published scholarly essays on Latin American colonial and contemporary literature, short fiction, and poetry, as well as travel chronicles and literary and opinion columns for Chilean print and web media. His novel Muriendo por la dulce patria mía was based on the life of Chilean heavyweight boxer Arturo Godoy. His translation of Herman Melville's Bartleby, the Scrivener, was published by Hueders in 2017. He maintains the blog Antípodas: Crónicas, ensayos y leseras, which hosts a selection of his writings.
