Vicky Unruh

Vicky Unruh (PhD University of Texas at Austin), professor emerita, specializes in Latin American narrative, theatre, and literary-intellectual culture and in twentieth and twenty-first century Cuban literary-intellectual culture. She is the author of Latin American Vanguards: The Art of Contentious Encounters (U of California P, 1994) and Performing Women and Modern Literary Culture in Latin America (U of Texas P, 2006); coeditor, with Jacqueline Loss, of The Cambridge History of Cuban Literature (Cambridge UP, 2024) and, with Michael Lazzara, of Telling Ruins in Latin America (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009); the coordinator of a special issue on Work for PMLA (October 2012); and, with Guillermina De Ferrari, coeditor of a dossier on Cuba’s Leonardo Padura for A Contracorriente (2015). Her numerous essays and articles have appeared in refereed journals and edited books in the US, Latin America, and Europe, and she is currently completing the monograph “Cuban Cartographies of Everyday Life, 1989-2020.” She is also the recipient of numerous research, teaching, and mentoring awards.