Marco Ramírez Rojas is an associate professor of Spanish at City University of New York, Lehman College. His research interests include Latin American cosmopolitanism and world literature, representations of politically inflicted fears in literature and cinema in the continent, and Latin American contemporary coming-of-age novels. His articles have been published in several academic journals in the United States, Europe, and Latin America. In collaboration with Olivia Moy, Ramírez Rojas published Julio y John, caminando y conversando (Lost and Found, 2019), the first translation of selected fragments of Imagen de John Keats, the literary biography written by Julio Cortázar about the Romantic British poet. Ramírez Rojas is coeditor of two volumes about sociopolitical fears in Latin America: Narrativas del miedo: Terror en obras literarias, cinemáticas y televisivas en Latinoamérica (Peter Lang, 2018) and Violencia, poder y afectos: Narrativas del miedo de Latinoamérica (Tamesis, 2022). He also edited a collection on the representation of children and minors in twentieth- and twenty-first-century cinema and literature: Growing Up in Latin America: Child and Youth Agency in Contemporary Popular Culture. Since 2019, he has been the head editor of the academic journal Ciberletras.
Marco Ramírez Rojas es Profesor Asociado de Español en Ci
