James Mesiti

James is an Albany, New York native who studies 20th century Hispanic poetry and, particularly, the poetic links that can bring together the Iberian Peninsula with the Americas. His research also seeks to engage poetry’s approximations to not only other literary genres, such as by means of poetry in prose or poetic prose, but also to other art forms, for example as manifested through visual or experimental poetry. In addition, he authored a book of poems titled Algo de nadie that was released in 2021. Academically prior to his time at Penn, he did a master's in Spanish at Saint Louis University Madrid and a master's in international relations at the Institut Barcelona d'Estudis Internacionals. He completed his B.A. at Hamilton College.