Knots like Stars

Roberto Forns-Broggi is Professor at Metropolitan State University of Denver, USA, where he teaches diverse advanced Spanish courses, including Latin American Cinema, and Latin American Essay on Nature. His writings on ecological perspectives applied to literature, art, film and new media investigate Latin American epistemologies and their influence on reading and writing practices. He is currently working on a collection of poems concerning the long-term perspectives of seeds and their implications in the poetic imagination and ecological consciousness.Karen Rauch is Associate Professor of Spanish at Kutztown University of Pennsylvania, USA, where she teaches nineteenth-century Spanish literature, Caribbean studies, translation and interpreting, and business Spanish. She received her PhD from the University of Virginia, USA, and, in 2014, worked as a participating scholar in the NEH Summer Institute, “The Centrality of Translation to the Humanities: New Interdisciplinary Scholarship.” The Uncanny Caribbean, her current book project, analyzes the work of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Cuban, Puerto Rican and Dominican authors, such as Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda, Alejandro Tapia y Rivera, and Marcio Veloz Maggiolo.