K. Müller-Bergh is a scholar, teacher and translator who has served as Director of Graduate Studies and Acting Head of the department. He is a past member of the Editorial Board of World Literature Today, as well as a translator from the Spanish and Portuguese, of the work of Mariano Brull, Ferreira Gullar, Haroldo de Campos, Decio Pignatari and Gilberto Mendon ça Teles.
As a Latin Americanist he is primarily interested in the Latin American languages and literatures of Spanish, Portuguese and French expression; 20th century Latin American avant-garde poetry and prose; Caribbean literature; Comparative literature; linguistics, literary theory, anthropology, history, and history of ideas related to the American continent. He has held a Senior Fulbright Research Grant to Brazil for the academic year 1982-1983, research fellowships from the Ministerio de Asuntos Exteriores, Madrid, the American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia, in 1990 and 1991 as well as fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities in 1986 and 1998-99. He was Visiting Professor at The Ohio State University, the Heinrich Heine University, Dusseldorf and the University of Chicago.
