title: Bruno Bosteels
text: # Bruno Bosteels
  
  Bruno Bosteels (Dutch:; born 1967, Leuven, Belgium) is a professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. He served until 2010 as the General Editor of diacritics. Bosteels is best known to the English-speaking world for his work on Latin American literature and culture and his translations of the work of Alain Badiou (a well-known French philosopher). Theory of the Subject appeared in 2009, Bosteels' translation of Badiou's Théorie du sujet (originally published in France in 1982).
  
  Bosteels has research interests spanning contemporary philosophy, literary criticism, political and critical theory.
  
  