Research
I work on contemporary literature and film in Latin America, with a particular focus on Argentina and its poetry. I recently 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).
Teaching
Across the whole of the Prelims (first-year) Spanish course and Latin American options for FHS (second and final year), including literature and film.
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
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)
"Fantasies of Catastrophe: Politics and Race in the Early Novels of Julio Cortázar," Bulletin of Spanish Studies 99.5 https://doi.org/10.3828/bhs.2022.31
"Ternura y Pathosformeln en la obra de Héctor Ciocchini," El taco en la brea 15.1
https://doi.org/10.14409/tb.2022.15.e0060
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)
"Fantastical plausibility," review of El marginal (Netflix), TLS (13 Sep 2019)
“Unreasonable Doubt: Politics and Aesthetics in the Crime Novels of Horacio Vázquez Rial,” Radical Americas Journal 3.1 (2018) https://doi.org/10.14324/111.444.ra.2018.v3.1.001
“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).
“Argentine Poetry Today: New Writing, New Readings," special edition of Bulletin of Hispanic Studies (93.6, 2016), edited with Jordana Blejmar.
The Foreign Passion, Cristian Aliaga, ed. and trans. Ben Bollig (London: Influx, 2016).
Antropófagos en las islas. Novísimos poetas de Gran Bretaña, ed. and trans. with Alejandra Crosta, with a foreword by Cristian Aliaga (Chubut, Arg.: Espacio Hudson, 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)