Alex Brostoff

Alex Brostoff is a writer, translator, and educator. Their first book, a decolonial reframing of autotheory in the Américas, is under advance contract with Columbia University Press. They are co-editor of the collection Autotheories (The MIT Press, 2025) and have guest edited special journal issues on autotheory (2021) and trans literatures (2025). They’ve also co-translated a range of literary nonfiction and critical theory from Spanish and Portuguese, including Indigenous leader Ailton Krenak’s Ancestral Future (Polity, 2024) and Brazilian activist Antônio Bispo dos Santos’s The Earth Gives, The Earth Wants (Polity, 2026). They are Assistant Professor of English and Women’s and Gender Studies at Georgetown University.