About
Maria Quintero is a professor of English at the University of Puerto Rico where she teaches literature and writing. Her specialization is in the languages, literatures and cultures of the English-speaking Caribbean with a focus on poetry and the environment. She is the main editor of the book, Caribbean Without Borders: Beyond the Can[n]on’s Range, published by Cambridge Scholars Press, and the winner of the 2018 College English Association’s Karen Lentz Madison Award for Scholarship. Her articles and essays have appeared in numerous journals and books on the field of Caribbean Studies. She is currently working on a special topics course on the beach in Caribbean Literature. Education
Ph.D., Anglophone Caribbean Literature, University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras.
M.A.E.E., with a specialization in Memoir and Literature, University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez.
B.A., Literature in English, University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez.
Publications
Quintero Aguiló
, María del Carmen, et al., eds. Caribbean Without Borders: Beyond the Can[n]on’s Range. Cambridge Scholars Press, 2015.
Quintero Aguiló
, María del Carmen. Rev. of Bougainvillea Ringplay, by Marion Bethel. Caribbean Studies Journal 42.1 (2014): 291-296.
Quintero, María del Carmen. “Two Birds of a Feather Ebb and Flow Together: Kamau Brathwaite’s Tidalectics
in Derek Walcott’s Omeros.” Creolization and Commonalities: Transgressing Neocolonial Boundaries in the Languages, Literatures and Cultures of the Caribbean and the Rest of the African Diaspora. Eds. Nicholas Faraclas
, et al. Curaçao: Fundashon
pa Planifikashon
di Idioma
and University of Curaçao, 2014. 233-240.
Quintero Aguiló
, María del Carmen. Rev. of Voices from Kibuli Country, by Dannabang Kuwabong.
Caribbean Studies Journal 42.2 (2014): 256-258.
QQuintero, María del Carmen. “Drawing Down Her[story]: Male Re-presentations in Claire Harris’s Drawing Down a Daughter.” Transcultural Roots Uprising: The Rhizomatic Languages, Literatures, and Cultures of the Caribbean. Eds. Nicholas Faraclas, et al. Curaçao: Fundashon pa Planifikashon di Idioma and University of Curaçao, 2013. 479-488.
QQuintero, María del Carmen. “To her Rock and Back: Kamau Brathwaite’s Tidalectics in Dionne Brand’s At the Full and Change of the Moon.” Double Voicing and Multiplex Identities: Unpacking Hegemonic Discourses in the Caribbean. Eds. Nicholas Faraclas, et al. Curaçao: Fundashon pa Planifikashon di Idioma and University of Curaçao, 2012. 137-142.
QQuintero, María del C. Tutor’s Column: “Life at the University of Puerto Rico’s Arts and Sciences English Writing Center.” The Writing Lab Newsletter, Purdue University 33.4 (December 2008): 14-15.
Upcoming Talks and Conferences
- “The Sands of Un-Certainty: Tidalectically Synthesizing Nature and Culture in Derek Walcott’s Omeros,” 49th College English Association Conference (CEA), “Bridges,” Hilton St. Petersburg Bayfront, FL.
- Endlessly Making the Nation: Tidalectically Synthesizing Nature and Culture in Derek Walcott’s Omeros, NAAAS & Affiliates International Conference, Durban, South Africa.
- Coming Out from the Trenches: Kamau Brathwaite’s Re-Visionary Chant(s) in Trench Town Rock, 34th Annual Conference of West Indian Literature, University of the West Indies and University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
- On the Verge of Utterance: Language and Identity in Richard Wright’s Native Son, Negociando raza, género y etnia en una nueva era global, University of Michigan and University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
- Co-organizer: Fifth International Graduate Student Conference. Caribbean Without Borders: Beyond the Can[n]on’s Range, University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras.
- “The English Graduate Student Program at UPR- Río Piedras.” Orientation for undergraduate students. Department of English, University of Puerto Rico, Humacao.
- Repeating Performance: The Playwright as Agent of Political Change in David Edgecomb’s “Kirnon’s Kingdom” and Ian Gregory Strachan’s “No Seeds in Babylon,” 3rd International Graduate Student Conference on Latin America and the Caribbean, York University, Toronto, Canada (CERLAC).
- From Matter to Abstraction: Pablo Neruda’s Dialectical Materialism in Ishion Hutchinson’s Far District, Primer Simposio Estudiantes Graduados, Facultad de HumanidadesUniversidad de Puerto Rico, Recinto de Río Piedras.
- Conversatorio: La Docencia como Experiencia Doctoral: Proyecto Piloto de Estudiantes Doctorales en la Docencia, Facultad de Humanidades, Primer Simposio Estudiantes Graduados, Facultad de HumanidadesUniversidad de Puerto Rico, Recinto de Río Piedras.
- Debunking the Motherhood Myth: The Breaking of Capitalist Family Parameters in Shani Mootoo’s Cereus Blooms at Night and Makeda Silvera’s The Heart Does not Bend, 4th Caribbean Without Borders: Interrogating Post Colonial Discourses, University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras.
Memberships
College English Association (CEA)
College English Association Caribbean Chapter (CEACC)
Modern Language Association (MLA)
National Association of African American Studies & Affiliates (NAAAS)
Virgin Islands Caribbean Cultural Center (VICCC), University of the Virgin Islands, College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences, St. Thomas
