Vanessa K. Valdés
Assistant Professor of Spanish and Portuguese, Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures The City College of New York
Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures
NAC 6/331D
The City College of New York
160 Convent Avenue
New York, NY10031
212-650-6279
vvaldes@ccny.cuny.edu
Dr. Valdés was born and raised in New York City. After studying English Literature at Yale University (B.A. 1999), she studied Portuguese and Brazilian Literatures (M.A. 2002) and Spanish and Latin American Literatures (M.A. 2003) at Vanderbilt University, where she went on to earn the combined Ph.D. in Spanish and Portuguese (2007). Her research interests include twentieth-century Latin American women’s narrative; comparative studies of the literatures of the Americas, particularly Afro-Hispanic and African-American Literature; Caribbean Literature and Latino Literature. She is currently working on a book examining the representation of New World African religions in novels and poems of the late 20th century. She has won the PSC-CUNY Research Grant in support of this research.
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