Víctor Rodríguez-Núñez joined Kenyon College in 2001. He has taught a number of diverse courses in Hispanic literature and culture, as well as all levels of Spanish language. As a scholar, he has published various critical editions, anthologies, prologues, and articles on Hispanic literatures, including a book on García Marquez's non-fiction works. Along with his academic endeavors, he was active as a cultural journalist in Cuba, Nicaragua, and Colombia, and served as an editor of both cultural magazines and specialized journals. He is also the author of eleven books of poetry, many of them recipients of literary awards, including the David Prize (Cuba), the Plural Prize (Mexico), the Renacimiento Prize (Spain), the Fray Luis de León Prize (Spain), and the Leonor Prize (Spain). Among his most recent publications is The Infinite's Ash/ Ceniza de infinito (London: Arc Publications, 2008), a selection of his early poetry translated and introduced by Katherine M. Hedeen. In collaboration with Hedeen, he has also published book-length translations, in English, of the notable Spanish American poets Juan Gelman, Ida Vitale and Juan Calzadilla, and in Spanish, of the well-known Australian poet John Kinsella.

Education

Ph.D. University of Texas at Austin
M. A. University of Oregon
B. A. Universidad de La Habana

Selected Publications

La poesía sirve para todo: Confesiones y juicios de poetas hispanos. Havana: Unión, 2008.

"La in/subordinación intelectual en Bustos y rimas, de Julián del Casal". Revista de Estudios Hispánicos 42 (2008): 51-81.

Edition and Introduction. Poesía. By Francisco Urondo. Havana: Casa de las Américas, 2007.

Edition. Oda a Rubén Darío: Poemas selectos. By José Coronel Urtecho. Caracas: Biblioteca Ayacucho, 2005.

"Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda y la [in]subordinación nacional". Temas [Havana] 32 (Enero-Marzo 2003): 59-70.

"Calibán, ¿antropófago? La identidad cultural latinoamericana de Oswald de Andrade a Roberto Fernández Retamar". Obras incompletas. By Oswald de Andrade. Ed. Jorge Schwartz. Paris: Archivos, 2003. 1095-1109.

"El cielo del rehén: La [in]subordinación sexual en los versos tardíos de Emilio Ballagas". Revista de Crítica Literaria Latinoamericana 55 (Primer Semestre 2002): 133-56.

"Relaciones y Hechos de Juan Gelman: 'disparos de la belleza incesante'". Revista Iberoamericana 194-195 (Jan.-Jun. 2001): 145-59.

"La [in]subordinación de género en Versos de Dulce María Loynaz". Revista de Estudios Hispánicos 35-2 (May 2001): 389-418.

"Género, alteridad y poesía en Belleza cruel de Angela Figuera Aymerich". Revista Hispánica Moderna 54 (2001): 140-53.

"Extrañeza de estar, certidumbre del otro: La poesía temprana de Cintio Vitier". Hispamérica 84 (1999): 23-35.

Courses Taught

SPAN 359 Literature and Film from the Cuban Revolution
SPAN 375 Spanish-American Essay and the Quest for Decolonization
SPAN 347 Queering Spanish American Literature and Film
SPAN 348 Violence and Culture in Colombia
SPAN 340 Introduction to Latin-American Cinema
SPAN 354 Contemporary Spanish-American Poetry
SPAN 344 Contemporary Spanish-American Short Story
SPAN 325-26 Introduction to Spanish-American Literature