Juan Carlos Quintero Herencia Quintero-Herencia

Juan Carlos Quintero-Herencia (Santurce, Puerto Rico. B.A., University of Puerto Rico; M.A., Ph.D., Princeton University) is a distinguished professor of literature and culture. From 1992 to 2001, he taught at the Department of Hispanic Studies at the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras. He also served as an Andrew W. Mellon Research Associate at Brown University's Department of Hispanic Studies from 1998 to 2000. 

He is the author of several acclaimed books, including Fulguración del espacio: Letras e imaginario institucional de la Revolución cubana 1960-1971 (Beatriz Viterbo Editora, 2002), which received the Latin American Studies Association’s Premio Iberoamericano, La máquina de la salsa: Tránsitos del sabor (Vértigo, 2005) revised second edition by Almenara Press, 2021), La hoja de mar (:) Efecto archipiélago I (2016), and De la queda(era): Imagen, tiempo y detención (La criba/Editorial El cangrejo, 2021). He is currently completing Palabra al mar (§) Efecto archipiélago II. Quintero-Herencia also edited Caribe abierto: Ensayos críticos (Iberoamericana, IILI, 2012) and Desistencia y polémica en el Caribe: Imagen, crítica, política (Almenara, 2024). 

As a poet, he is the author of several award-winning collections, including El hilo para el marisco/Cuaderno de los envíos (Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña, 2002), which won the Pen Club of Puerto Rico Poetry Prize, La caja negra (Isla negra, 1996), Libro del sigiloso (Terranova, 2012), El cuerpo del milagro (Bokeh, 2016), and Minotauro en mar chiquita (La criba, 2023).

Quintero-Herencia has held fellowships from the Ford Foundation, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña/National Endowment for the Arts, and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. His areas of expertise include Modern and Contemporary Latin American Literature, Contemporary Puerto Rican and Cuban Literatures, Caribbean Literatures and Cultures, Literary Theory, Cultural Analysis, Philosophy, Anti-philosophy, Poetics, Politics, Sensoriality, and Archipelagic Poetics.

Here you can watch and listen to the presentation of La hoja de mar (:) Efecto archipiélago I by Juan Duchesne Winter and Rubén Ríos Ávila at the Library of Congress.

Minotauro en mar chiquita, available here: https://www.lacriba.org/product-page/minotauro-en-mar-chiquita

Desistencia y polémica en el Caribe: Imagen, crítica, política available here: https://almenarapress.com/shop/almenara/quintero-herencia-juan-carlos-ed-2023-desistencia-y-polemica/ and here: https://a.co/d/biqdx7M