- Deputy Executive Officer, Latin American, Iberian, and Latino Cultures
- Professor, Latin American, Iberian, and Latino Cultures
Research Interests
- U.S. Latinx and Caribbean literatures and cultures; American studies; U.S. bilingualism; multilingual American literature; poetics; gender and sexuality; transnational feminisms; translation.
Office Hours
Monday & Wednesday 3 p.m.–5 p.m.
LAILaC
Room 4116.01
Vanessa Pérez-Rosario is professor of Latin American, Iberian, and Latino Cultures at the Graduate Center.
She is the author of Becoming Julia de Burgos: The Making of a Puerto Rican Icon (University of Illinois Press 2014), which was published in a Spanish edition titled Julia de Burgos: la creación de un ícono puertorriqueño (University of Illinois Press 2022). She is editor of Hispanic Caribbean Literature of Migration: Narratives of Displacement (Palgrave 2010).
She translated into English Mayra Santos-Febres’ collection of poetry entitled Boat People (Cardboard House Press 2021). She is editor of “I am my own path: A Bilingual Anthology of Julia de Burgos’ Writings” (under contract with the University of Texas Press). This anthology will make the prose and letters of Julia de Burgos widely available for the first time.
Vanessa Pérez-Rosario is managing editor of Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism. She is curator of Off the Page: Conversations with Writers, a Queens College literary reading and speaker series.
Publications:
Boat People - Now available from Cardboard House Press
Julia de Burgos: La creación de un ícono puertorriqueño available from Illinois UP (fall 2021)
Becoming Julia de Burgos available from IllinoisUP
Managing Editor, Small Axe www.smallaxe.net
Office Hours
Monday & Wednesday 3 p.m.–5 p.m.
LAILaC
Room 4116.01