{"id":8565,"date":"2022-04-25T14:46:32","date_gmt":"2022-04-25T18:46:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/149.4.100.129\/academics\/cl\/?page_id=8565"},"modified":"2022-04-25T15:37:02","modified_gmt":"2022-04-25T19:37:02","slug":"christopher-winks","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.qc.cuny.edu\/academics\/cl\/faculty\/christopher-winks\/","title":{"rendered":"Christopher Winks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[et_pb_section fb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; theme_builder_area=&#8221;post_content&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.17.1&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221;][et_pb_row _builder_version=&#8221;4.17.1&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; theme_builder_area=&#8221;post_content&#8221;][et_pb_column _builder_version=&#8221;4.17.1&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; type=&#8221;4_4&#8243; theme_builder_area=&#8221;post_content&#8221;][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.17.1&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; theme_builder_area=&#8221;post_content&#8221; hover_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243; sticky_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243;]<\/p>\n<h3><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.qc.cuny.edu\/academics\/cl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2022\/04\/christopher-winks.jpg\" width=\"180\" height=\"279\" alt=\"Winks Headshot\" class=\"wp-image-8559 alignnone size-full lazyload\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 180px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 180\/279;font-size: 16px;float: right\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" \/>Christopher Winks<\/h3>\n<p>Christopher 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 Aut\u00f3noma de M\u00e9xico, and the Universidad Iberoamericana (Mexico City). \u00a0He is the author of a comparative study,<span>\u00a0<\/span><em>Symbolic Cities in Caribbean Literature<\/em>\u00a0(Palgrave Macmillan, 2009), and he has published articles reviews, and translations (from French and Spanish) in many venues, including<span>\u00a0<\/span><em>Comparative Literature<\/em>,<span>\u00a0<\/span><em>Small Axe<\/em>,<span>\u00a0<\/span><em>Review: \u00a0Literature and Arts of the Americas<\/em>,<span>\u00a0<\/span><em>African American Review<\/em>,<span>\u00a0<\/span><em>Poligraf\u00edas<\/em>,\u00a0<em>The Brooklyn Rail<\/em>, and in several book-length edited collections. \u00a0Recent public presentations include talks on Aim\u00e9 C\u00e9saire, James Baldwin, and Afro-diasporic aesthetics. \u00a0He is\u00a0the editor and co-translator with Adriana Gonz\u00e1lez Mateos of<span>\u00a0<\/span><em>Los danzantes del tiempo,<span>\u00a0<\/span><\/em>a bilingual English-Spanish anthology of Kamau Brathwaite&#8217;s poems that received the 2011 Casa de las Am\u00e9ricas prize. \u00a0Among the other authors he has translated are Jorge Luis Borges, \u00e9douard Glissant, Jos\u00e9 Kozer, H\u00e9ctor Abad Faciolince, Cecilia Vicu\u00f1a, and Lila Zemborain. \u00a0Current projects include<span>\u00a0<\/span><em>Labyrinth<\/em>,\u00a0a bilingual English-Spanish anthology of the selected writings of Cuban poet Lorenzo Garc\u00eda Vega, and a study of Caribbean Negritude poetics and its ramifications and offshoots in the poetry of the Americas.<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christopher Winks Christopher 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. 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