Charles Cantalupo

Charles Cantalupo is a literary scholar and critic, with books ranging from Thomas Hobbes to Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o.

A leading translator of African language poetry, he has six books of translations from Eritrea. His literary memoir, Joining Africa, came out in 2012, and his selected essays, Non-Native Speaker, in 2017. He has seven poetry collections, recently including The Woodstock Sandal and Further Steps.

He has received support from the Ford and Rockefeller Foundations and the World Bank. Co-author of the historic Asmara Declaration on African Languages and Literatures, he is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of English, Comparative Literature, and African Studies at Penn State University.