Elvira Blanco

Elvira Blanco is Associate Director of the Hispanic Institute and Managing Editor of Revista Hispánica Moderna. She holds a PhD in Latin American and Iberian Cultures from Columbia University. Her scholarship combines studies in popular religion, political theory and history, and film and visual studies, with emphasis on Venezuela and the Greater Caribbean. Her research has been published in A Contracorriente, Ciberletras, Caribbean Studies, Trópico Absoluto, and Habitar el Cine. Her book chapter "Kaporito, el Guardián de la Montaña (Venezuela, 2021): Ecocinema and Identity" is forthcoming in The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Animation Studies, Vol. 1. 

She is also the editor of Constellation. Latin American Voices in Translation, published by Sundial House/Columbia UP in 2024, and has worked as a freelance translator and editor. She served on the jury of PEN America's PEN/Heim Translation Grants in 2025 and 2024.

In addition to her work at Columbia, she teaches undergraduate literature, cultural studies, and writing courses in Parsons School of Design and Bard College's New York City Microcolleges as part-time faculty.