Phone: 538-2385
rmarquez@mtholyoke.edu
Phone: 538-2385
rmarquez@mtholyoke.edu
Advisory Board Memberships & Other Non-MHC Responsibilities
Mr. Marquez has served on the Board of
Advisory Editors of The American Quarterly, the Advisory Board of
The Curbstone Press, the Board of Directors of the North American Congress
on Latin America (NACLA) [1981-1991], and on the Editorial Board of
NACLA's Report on the Americas(1991-1996). Mr. Marquez has also
served as a member of the Advisory Committee of the Clarence L. Holte
Literary Prize, on the International Jury for the Premio Casa de
Las Americas, as a member of the Editorial Board of the
Massachusetts Review, and as Area Coordinator of the Migrant
Education Program of Middlesex County, Massachusetts. A member of the
Board of Trustees of Hampshire College from 1988-1996, and now Trustee
Emeritius, from 1993-1995 he also served on the Board of the Girls
Club, Inc., Holyoke, Mass. He currently sits on the Board of
Directors of the Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities and is an
Associate Editor of the New World Studies Series published by the
University of Virginia Press.
Research Interests & Literary Accomplishments
Founding editor of Caliban: A
Journal of New World Thought and Writing, Mr. Marquez has been
recognized for the calibre of his many translations
from the work of a wide variety of Latin American poets and writers, and
his work in the field of Caribbean literary and cultural history. The
editor of two volumes of the poetry of Nicolas Guillen,
Patria
o Muerte: The Great Zoo and Other Poems and, with D.A. McMurray, Man-Making
Words: Selected Poems, Mr. Marquez is also editor of the bilingual
anthology
Latin American Revolutionary Poetry. His essays, reviews, and commentaries
have appeared in a variety of publications both in the United States and
abroad, including in Sin Nombre (Puerto Rico), Casa de Las Americas
(Havana), Escritura (Venezuela), Jamaica Journal (Kingston),
West Indian Guide (Baltimore & the Hague), Anales del Caribe
(Havana), Ideologies and Literature, Latin American Research
Review, The New York Times Book Review, The Village Voice
Literary Supplement, and The Latino Review of Books.
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