Ethel Barja Cuyutupa

Bio

Ph. D. Brown University 2021. Originally from Peru, she is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Modern Languages at Salisbury University. She is a scholar, writer, and educator with expertise in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Century cultural and literary production of the Andes and the Caribbean. Her publications include Poesía e insurrección: La Revolución cubana en el imaginario latinoamericano (2023) and the poetry collections Gravitaciones / Gravitations (2013; 2017), Travesía invertebrada / Rambling Journey (2019), Hope is Tanning on a Nudist Beach (2022), and La muda (2023). She received the Oversound Chapbook Prize in 2021 and the International Latino Award 2023. Her work has been translated into French, German, Portuguese, and English. She holds a BA in Literature and Linguistics by Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, and an MA in Hispanic Literature and Culture by University of Illinois at Chicago. Visit www.ethelbarja.com