Néstor E. Rodríguez

Professor Rodríguez was born in La Romana, Dominican Republic, and grew up in San Juan, Puerto Rico. He received a BA in Comparative Literature from the Universidad de Puerto Rico (Río Piedras), and a PhD from Emory University in Latin American Literature. He is the author of Escrituras de desencuentro en la República Dominicana (Ciudad de México, 2005) and two books of essays: Crítica para tiempos de poco fervor (Santo Domingo, 2009) and Interposiciones (Santo Domingo, 2019). He has written widely on Dominican, Cuban and Puerto Rican cultural production, particularly on issues of race and nationalism in literature, and on Latin American poetry. His essays and articles have appeared in academic journals such as Revista Hispánica Moderna, Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos and Revista Iberoamericana, as well as in the literary supplements of La Jornada (México), Hoy (Dominican Republic) and Claridad (Puerto Rico). He has also published four poetry collections: Animal pedestre (San Juan, 2004), El desasido (Ciudad de México, 2009), Limo (Rio de Janeiro, 2018) and Poesía reunida (Santo Domingo, 2018).