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Assistant Professor of Contemporary Latin American literature and culture with an emphasis in the Hispanic Caribbean. Her research interests include the relationship between literary studies and political philosophy, cultural studies, migration cultures, and U.S. Latino literatures. Professor Rivera-Rivera is currently preparing a book-manuscript on the uses of creativity, confinement, and political agency in the prison writing of Hispanic and Latino-Caribbean authors who were subjected to physical and political constraints in different socio-historical contexts of imprisonment. Professor Rivera-Rivera teaches general courses in modern and contemporary Latin America, the region of the Hispanic Caribbean, U.S. Latino literatures, and all levels of Spanish language courses in the Major. Selected publications Peer-reviewed academic journals “The Politics of Madness in Francisco Matos Paoli’s prison poem, Canto de la locura”, Revista Hispánica Moderna 61.2, December 2008. "Tensión dialéctica en Versos Libres de José Martí", Special issue dedicated to José Martí. Exégesis, 8. 23-24 (1995): 95-100. Cultural journalism; newspapers: “Reseña del foro de escritores jóvenes puertorriqueños”, Suplemento cultural En rojo del semanario Claridad (San Juan, Puerto Rico) 8-14 Dec. 1995: 24. “Corpografías: entrevista con tres bailarinas de danza moderna y experimental, Viveca Vázquez, Petra Bravo y Awilda Sterling”. Suplemento cultural En rojo del semanario Claridad (San Juan, Puerto Rico) 17-23 March. 1995: 20-22. Contact info: |