Christopher Winks
Christopher WinksChristopher Winks (PhD, Comparative Literature, New York University; MA, Poetics, New College of California; BA, French, University of California, Berkeley) is a scholar of comparative modernisms, with particular emphasis on Caribbean, Latin American, and African-American literature. He has taught in numerous universities, including New York University, Columbia University, Medgar Evers College (CUNY), the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, and the Universidad Iberoamericana (Mexico City). ÌýHe is the author of a comparative study,ÌýSymbolic Cities in Caribbean LiteratureÌý(Palgrave Macmillan, 2009), and he has published articles reviews, and translations (from French and Spanish) in many venues, includingÌýComparative Literature,ÌýSmall Axe,ÌýReview: ÌýLiterature and Arts of the Americas,ÌýAfrican American Review,Ìý±Ê´Ç±ô¾±²µ°ù²¹´Úò¹²õ,ÌýThe Brooklyn Rail, and in several book-length edited collections. ÌýRecent public presentations include talks on Aimé Césaire, James Baldwin, and Afro-diasporic aesthetics. ÌýHe isÌýthe editor and co-translator with Adriana González Mateos ofÌýLos danzantes del tiempo,Ìýa bilingual English-Spanish anthology of Kamau Brathwaite’s poems that received the 2011 Casa de las Américas prize. ÌýAmong the other authors he has translated are Jorge Luis Borges, édouard Glissant, José Kozer, Héctor Abad Faciolince, Cecilia Vicuña, and Lila Zemborain. ÌýCurrent projects includeÌýLabyrinth,Ìýa bilingual English-Spanish anthology of the selected writings of Cuban poet Lorenzo GarcÃa Vega, and a study of Caribbean Negritude poetics and its ramifications and offshoots in the poetry of the Americas.