Gustavo Pérez-Firmat
David Feinson Professor of Humanities
Gustavo Pérez Firmat teaches modern Spanish, Spanish-American, and Latino literature. His books of literary and cultural criticism include: Idle Fictions: The Hispanic Vanguard Novel, 1926-1934 (1982; rev. ed. 1993); Literature and Liminality: Festive Readings in the Hispanic Tradition (1986); The Cuban Condition: Translation and Identity in Modern Cuban Literature (1989; rpt. 2006); Do the Americas Have a Common Literature? (editor; 1990); Life on the Hyphen: The Cuban-American Way (1994; Spanish version: Vidas en vilo: La cultura cubanoamericana, 2000); My Own Private Cuba: Essays on Cuban Literature and Culture (1999); Cincuenta lecciones de exilio y desexilio (2000); and Tongue Ties: Logo-Eroticism in Anglo-Hispanic Literature (2003). He is also the author of several collections of poetry in English and Spanish: Carolina Cuban (1987); Equivocaciones (1989); Bilingual Blues (1995); Scar Tissue (2005); of a novel, Anything but Love (2000); and a memoir, Next Year in Cuba (1995; rev. ed. 2000; rpt. 2005; Spanish version: El año que viene estamos en Cuba, 1997). Life on the Hyphen was awarded the Eugene M. Kayden University Press National Book Award for 1994 and received Honorable Mention in the Modern Language Association’s Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize and the Latin American Studies Association’s Bryce Wood Book Award. Pérez Firmat has been the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Council of Learned Societies, the Mellon Foundation, and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. In 2004 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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gpf@columbia.edu
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