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Areas of Expertise

Modern and Contemporary Latin American, Caribbean Literatures and Cultures, Transnational Literatures, Spanish-American and US Latino Prison Narratives.

Degrees

PhD Harvard University, Romance Languages and Literatures

Professional Publications & Contributions

• “The Politics of Madness in Francisco Matos Paoli’s prison poem, Canto de la locura”, Revista Hispánica Moderna. 61.2 (December 2008): 197-213.
• "Tensión dialéctica en Versos Libres de José Martí" [Dialectical Tension in José Martí’s Versos Libres], Special issue of Exégesis, (Universidad de Puerto Rico-Humacao), 8. 23-24 (1995): 95-100.
• "Revolution Interrupted: The ‘Women of April’ and the Utopia of National Liberation". The Utopian Impulse in Latin America. Kim Beauchesne and Alexandra Santos, Eds. Palgrave Macmillan, 2011

Additional Information

Professor Wanda Rivera-Rivera received her PhD at Harvard University in 2006. She started her tenure track appointment at the Department of Hispanic Studies that same year. Her research areas include the relationship between literary studies and political philosophy, Hispanic Caribbean prison narratives and Poetics. She teaches courses on Latin American Literatures and Cultures, Intellectual and Cultural History of the Hispanic Caribbean and U.S Latino Literatures. She also teaches all the levels of language courses in the Spanish Major. Her current book project examines the cultural production of Hispanic Caribbean writers, artists and insurgents who were subjected to physical and political constraints in different socio-historical contexts of imprisonment.