Research

I work on contemporary literature and film in Latin America, with a particular focus on Argentina and its poetry. I co-edited, with Jorge Locane, The Routledge Companion to Twenty-First Century Latin American Poetry.  With Mark Leech, I translated and introduced the poems of Sergio Raimondi in Selected Poems (Liverpool, 2023). I have published a book on the cinematic adaptation of poetry in Argentina, entitled Moving Verses, and a volume edited with David M.J. Wood, The Poetry-Film Nexus in Latin America, as well as a volume of translations of Cristian Aliaga's travel prose poetry, Music for Unknown Journeys. I am an editor of Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies. I co-edited Latin American Cultural Studies: A Reader (Routledge, 2017, pbk 2019). I am currently working on tenderness in Latin American literature, theatre and film; and on translating the poetry of Juan Carlos Bustriazo Ortiz. 

Teaching

Across the whole of the Prelims (first-year) literature Spanish course, including Latin American cinema; Latin American options for FHS (second and final year), including literature and film, as well as translation (Spanish into English).

Graduate Supervision

I am currently supervising MPhil and DPhil students working on aspects of Latin American and particularly Southern Cone literature, film, and cultural studies. I would welcome potential graduate students wishing to study in these areas.

Selected Publications

The Routledge Companion to Twenty-First Century Latin American Poetry, edited by Ben Bollig and Jorge J. Locane (Routledge, 2026).

Selected Poems, Sergio Raimondi, edited and translated with an introduction by Ben Bollig and Mark Leech (Liverpool, 2023). 

The Poetry-Film Nexus in Latin America, ed. Ben Bollig and David M.J. Wood (Oxford, 2022)

Moving Verses: Poetry on Screen in Contemporary Argentine Cinema (Liverpool, 2021)

Music for Unknown Journeys, poems by Cristian Aliaga, edited, translated and with an introduction by Ben Bollig (Liverpool, 2021)

“Contemporary Poetry,” Chapter 5 in Stephen Hart (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Latin American Poetry. Cambridge University Press, 2018 https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108178648.007

Politics and Public Space in Contemporary Argentine Poetry. The Lyric and the State (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016).

The Foreign Passion, Cristian Aliaga, ed. and trans. Ben Bollig (London: Influx, 2016).

Studies in Spanish and Latin American Cinemas, 11.2 (2014), special edition dedicated to filmic adaptation of poetry in Latin America, edited and introduction with David M.J. Wood.

Activismo poético. Ensayos sobre la poesía argentina contemporánea. (Chubut, Arg.: Espacio Hudson, April 2013)

Modern Argentine Poetry. Displacement, Exile and Migration (University of Wales Press, 2011)

Resistance and Emancipation: Cultural and Poetic Practices, ed. with Arturo Casas (Oxford/Bern: Peter Lang, 2011)

Néstor Perlongher. The Poetic Search for an Argentine Marginal Voice, (University of Wales Press, 2008)