Julia Kornberg is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese studying the role of translation and translation theory in modern and contemporary Latin America. In Spanish, she has published the novel Atomizado Berlín with Club Hem Press in Argentina and Scaraboquio in Mexico. In English, she has contributed essays for The Believer, Bookforum,The Drift, The Los Angeles Review of Books and Astra Magazine. 

During her IHUM fellowship, Julia will work on the self-translation of her unpublished second novel, Las Fiestas, under the guidance of Bosnian American writer Aleksandr Hemon.