Guillermina De Ferrari
Guillermina De Ferrari (Columbia University 2001) teaches contemporary Caribbean literature and art. She has published numerous articles on Cuban literature and visual culture, Caribbean novel, postcolonial theory, cultural studies, and world literature. Her articles can be found in The Latin American Literary Review, The Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies, The Hispanic Review, The Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies, among others. Her book Vulnerable States: Bodies of Memory in Contemporary Caribbean Fiction (The University of Virginia Press, 2007) studies the metaphorical power of the vulnerable body within what Edouard Glissant calls “the Poetics of Relation.” She is currently working on a book on the topic of friendship and civil society in contemporary Cuban narrative.