https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4106-9568
Paul & Phyllis Fireman Professor and Chair of the Department of Spanish and Portugueses at Emory University. He is also Arthur F. Thurnau Professor Emeritus at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and the author of The Censorship Files: Latin American Writers and Franco's Spain (SUNY, 2007), Narrativas híbridas (Verbum, 2000), and co-editor of Market Matters (AJHCS), Teaching the Latin American Boom (MLA, 2015) and Territories of Conflict: Traversing Colombia Through Cultural Studies (University of Rochester Press, 2017). His forthcoming book Commodifying Violence in Literature and on Screen: The Colombian Condition (Routlegde, 2021) examines mass-marketed media products that perpetuate the “dark side” of Latin America for global consumption. His articles have appeared in Symposium, Revista Crítica de Literatura Latinoamericana, Hispanófila, MLN and Hispanic Review. He has been the Editor Director of Revista de Estudios Colombianos between 2018 and 2024.