John Pedro Schwartz

John Pedro Schwartz sits on the editorial board of the journal Pessoa Plural. He has published scholarly articles on James Joyce, Henry James, Virginia Woolf, Jorge Luis Borges, and Fernando Pessoa, as well as on the intersections of composition, media, and museum studies. He has co-edited two books, Archives, Museums and Collecting Practices in the Modern Arab World (2012) and TransLatin Joyce: Global Transmissions in Ibero-American Literature (2014). While teaching at the American University of Beirut, he freelanced for Foreign Policy, filing two comprehensive reports on the Syrian civil war in 2011 and 2012. In a further journalistic venture, he published a three-part investigative series in Warscapes in April 2015, on the vigilante uprising against the Knights Templar drug cartel in Michoacán, Mexico. He has translated five books of poetry and prose by Pessoa—four of them with his late father—poems by Augusto de Campos and Décio Pignatari, and an essay by Eduardo Lourenço. Their translations of Poetry—Minimal Anthology (2020) and Message (2022) carry the major distinction of being the only existing English renditions of Fernando Pessoa’s poems to recreate both the rhyme and the metrical schemes of the original.