Artist project:

Anna Elena Torres is an Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Chicago. Torres’ forthcoming book is titled Horizons Blossom, Borders Vanish: Anarchism and Yiddish Literature (Yale University Press). This project examines the poetry, aesthetics, language politics, and religious thought of Jewish transnational anarchist movements from 1870 to the present. Torres is the co-editor of With Freedom in Our Ears: Histories of Jewish Anarchism (University of Illinois Press, 2022), with labor historian Kenyon Zimmer. Torres also co-edited a special issue of the Yiddish Studies journal In geveb on the Polish poet, philosopher, and art critic Debora Vogel, which features a study of Ella’s recent Berlin work.

ANNA ELENA TORRES