Vera Kutzinski
American academic and researcher (born 1956) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Vera M. Kutzinski is an American academic and researcher who was born in Cuxhaven, Germany, in 1956. Since 2004, she has been the Martha Rivers Ingram Professor of English and Professor of Comparative Literature at Vanderbilt University. Kutzinski also directs the Alexander von Humboldt in English (HiE) project, a collaboration between Vanderbilt and the Institute of Romance Languages and Literatures at the University of Potsdam, Germany.
Vera M. Kutzinski | |
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Born | (1956-01-18) January 18, 1956 (age 68) |
Nationality | American |
Occupation(s) | Academic and researcher |
Title | Martha Rivers Ingram Professor of English |
Awards | Alexander Bouchet Prize for Excellence in Afro-American Studies Theron Rockwell Field Prize Gustave Arlt Award in the Humanities |
Academic background | |
Education | Smith College Yale University |
Academic work | |
Institutions | Vanderbilt University |
Doctoral students | Lena Hill |
Kutzinski’s work focuses on African American and Afro-Diasporic literatures in hemispheric and transatlantic contexts; on translation and translation studies; and on the history of knowledge production. Her books include Against the American Grain: Myth and History in William Carlos Williams, Jay Wright, and Nicolás Guillén,[1] Sugar's Secrets: Race and the Erotics of Cuban Nationalism,[2] and The Worlds of Langston Hughes: Modernism and Translation in the Americas.[3]