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Classical and Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
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Víctor Figueroa was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico. After completing his B.A. at the University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras, he obtained his M.A. and Ph.D. in Comparative Literature at Harvard University. In addition to journal articles, he is the author of three poetry collections, El regicida y su sombra (Terranova Editores, 2011) and Devenir de los arcanos (Casa de los Poetas, 2013), and Alquimia del desasosiego (Casa de los Poetas, 2016); and two critical books on Caribbean literature: Not at Home in One’s Home: Caribbean Self-Fashioning in the Poetry of Luis Palés Matos, Aimé Césaire, and Derek Walcott (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2009), and Prophetic Visions of the Past: Pan-Caribbean Representations of the Haitian Revolution (Ohio State University Press, 2015).
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