Roberto Márquez

Kenan Professor of Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Ph.D. Harvard University, holds an endowed Chair with College-wide teaching responsibilities in the fields of literature and social theory. He offers a wide range of courses on the Caribbean, its cultural history and role in the construction of the West, as well as on the intellectual history of Spanish America. He founded the literary review Calibán, edited the classic collection in English translation of Latin American Revolutionary Poetry, and has published books, articles, and translations in Caribbean and Latin American letters.