Amauri Gutierrez-Coto

Prof. Gutiérrez-Coto joined the Foreign Languages & Literatures faculty in August 2015 and, since August 2018, serves on the Africana Studies’ Advisory Board. His teaching and research interests are primarily focused on Caribbean studies, particularly in the Spanish-speaking Africana Diaspora, Orígenes Literary Group, LGBTQ+ Studies, poetry, material and visual cultures.

He also has authored three scholarly monographs, including a literary history (El grupo Orígenes de Lezama Lima o el infierno de la trascendencia, 2012), and seven edited volumes, including a last critical edition (Complete Poems by Ambrosio Echemendía, 2019). As a poet, the most recent of Prof. Gutiérrez-Coto’s three books of poetry is A las puertas de Esmirna (2017).  His scholarly articles appear in several journals, including Cuban Studies, Revista de la Biblioteca Nacional de Cuba, Camino Real: Revista de estudios norteamericanos, and Celestinesca. In 2008, he won the National Essay Prize for “José María Heredia,” awarded by the Cuban Union of Writers and Artists. Among this and other distinctions, he has received two grants from Spain’s Ministry of Culture (2010, 2015).

Since 2015, Dr. Gutiérrez-Coto serves as editor in chief of the peer-reviewed journal Caribe, revista de cultura y literatura (Founded at the University of Hawaii in 1976). Additionally, he is an editorial board member of Chasqui, revista de literatura latinoamericana (Arizona State University) and of Transatlántica: Poetry and Scholarship (Case Western Reserve University).