Claire Solomon ’98

• 20th and 21st century Latin American and Comparative Literature
• Literary and Cultural Theory
• North and South American Yiddish Theater
• Popular and Avant-garde Theater
• Pop Culture
• Continental and American Philosophy
• Music and Music Theory
• Gender Studies
• Diaspora Studies

Book

• Fictions of the Bad Life: The Naturalist Prostitute and Her Avatars in Latin American Literature, 1880–2010 (Ohio State UP, 2014)

Articles

• “Yoga as World Literature: Somaesthetic Ekphrasis and (Mis)Translation.” Andrew Edgar and William Morgan, eds. Somaesthetics and Sport (Leiden: Brill, 2022): 183-209.
• “Musical Comedy as Compromise Formation: Judío and Judía (1926), by Ivo Pelay.” In Geveb: A Journal of Yiddish Studies. Special Issue: Yiddish and the Transnational in Latin America (2021). https://ingeveb.org/articles/musical-comedy-as-compromise-formation
• “Machine Translation and Translation Machines in Roberto Arlt’s Los siete locos (1929) and Los lanzallamas (1931).” Mutatis Mutandis: Revista Latinoamericana de traducción 11:2 (2018): 6-23. https://doi.org/10.17533/udea.mut.v11n2a08

Fiction and Music

• Spacelord and Queen (libretto). Commissioned by the Louisville Orchestra. Music by Lisa Bielawa. Commissioned by The Louisville Orchestra. March, 2023.
• Centuries in the Hours (libretto and film treatment). Music by Lisa Bielawa. Co-commissioned by Kaufman Music Center, May 2021.
  https://www.kaufmanmusiccenter.org/mch/event/lisa-bielawa-centuries-in-the-hours/.
• “A-1.” Waxwing Literary Journal 16 (Fall 2018). https://waxwingmag.org/items/issue16/38_Solomon-A-1.php.