Carlos Riobó is Professor of Latin American Literatures and Cultures at the Graduate Center and The City College of New York. He is also Professor of Comparative Literature at CCNY and Chair of his Department of Classical and Modern Languages & Literatures at CCNY. Professor Riobó is the Director of CCNY’s Kaye Scholarship and Co-Director of its Cátedra Mario Vargas Llosa. He is an Editorial Board member of Review: Literature and Arts of the Americas.
Dr. Riobó was the recipient of the CCNY President’s Award for Outstanding Faculty Service in the Division of Humanities and Arts in 2014. His research interests include nineteenth and twentieth-century Cuban and Argentine literature and cultures. He has appeared on U.S. and international radio and television programs. Professor Riobó has done field research in Havana at the Cuban National Library and Archive, as well as in Argentina, Dominican Republic, France, Portugal, Puerto Rico, and Spain. He has published articles on Manuel Puig, Severo Sarduy, Sigüenza y Góngora, nineteenth-century Argentine literature, Ezra Pound, and Italian and Spanish Medieval Literature, in major refereed journals. Currently, he is working on a book manuscript on the counter archive. He has taught at Yale University, SUNY Binghamton, Bard College, and Columbia University. In 2017, he was chosen as recipient of an Erasmus+ Staff Mobility Program and invited to teach at Ca’ Foscari University, Venice, Italy.
His publications include the books Caught between the Lines: Captives, Frontiers, and National Identity in Argentine Literature and Art(University of Nebraska Press, New Hispanisms: Cultural and Literary Studies series), Sub-versions of the Archive: Manuel Puig’s and Severo Sarduy’s Alternative Identities (Bucknell University Press, 2011); Cuban Intersection of Literary and Urban Spaces (SUNY Press, 2011); Handbook of Contemporary Cuba: Economy, Politics, Civil Society, and Globalization, with Mauricio Font (Paradigm Press, 2013); and, among his many peer-reviewed article are, “Raiding the Anales of the Empire: Sarduy’s Subversions of the Latin American Boom,” Hispanic Review. 81.3 (2013): 331-352, for which he won in 2014 the Latin American Studies Association’s (LASA) Sylvia Molloy Award for the best peer-reviewed humanities article published in 2013 and “Sarduy’s Colibrí and the Search for Discursive Foundations in the Regional Novel” Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies 41.2 (2017): 54-68