Horacio Castellanos Moya, associate professor, Spanish and Portuguese, CLAS
Revisiting Exile

Castellanos Moya will address the long periods of his life spent living in exile through a non-fiction project. After receiving death threats in his native El Salvador for his controversial novel Revulsion, Thomas Bernhard in San Salvador, Castellanos Moya left the country and lived in Madrid, Mexico City, Guatemala City, and Frankfurt from 1997 to 2006. In 2023, Castellanos Moya settled permanently in the US. He will revisit the four cities in which he stayed, comparing the past and present not only of his worldview and personal circumstances, but also the cultural and political environs of each city. The author of 13 novels and three collections of essays, Castellanos Moya will blend memoir, travel literature, and essay in his first autobiographical book.