Christopher Schafenacker

Christopher Schafenacker grew up in Edmonton (Canada). He received a B.A. with distinction in Philosophy and Spanish Language & Literature from the University of Alberta before embarking on extensive travels through Latin America and Europe. In 2012 he began coursework in the Comparative Literature program at UMass Amherst before finding his true home in the Spanish & Portuguese program. After earning his M.A., he progressed to the Ph.D. where he works on literary exchanges between Spain and North America. Specifically, he writes about the translation history of Federico García Lorca’s Poeta en Nueva York (1940) and the impact this work had on successive generations of North American poets.