Xita Rubert is a Spanish writer and a PhD candidate in comparative literature. She is the author of the novels Mis días con los Kopp and Los hechos de Key Biscayne, winner of the 2024 Premio Herralde de Novela. Her books have been translated into German, Portuguese, and English. She writes a column for the Spanish newspaper La Vanguardia.
She is currently a Graduate Fellow in the Program in Latin American Studies. Her dissertation posits how impersonality –or the ability not to be oneself– can often supersede personal identity, and focuses on Brazilian novelist Clarice Lispector, Argentinian short story writer Silvina Ocampo, and British-Mexican artist Leonora Carrington. She also examines impersonation as seen in “holy fool” characters: ambiguous, elusive figures who take on a deceptively simple persona.
She holds a Philosophy and Literature BA from the University of Warwick and her teaching experience includes creative writing (fiction and nonfiction); 20th century fiction (Latin American, North American, European); and medicine-literature overlaps.