Christopher Winks is associate professor of comparative literature at Queens College, CUNY. A scholar of comparative modernisms, with particular emphasis on Caribbean, Latin American, and African American literature, he is the author of Symbolic Cities in Caribbean Literature and has published articles, reviews, and translations (from French and Spanish) in journals and book-length edited collections. He is the editor and co-translator, with Adriana González Mateos, of Los danzantes del tiempo, a bilingual English-Spanish anthology of Kamau Brathwaite’s poems that received the 2011 Casa de las Américas Prize.