Born in Bogotá, Colombia, Felipe Martínez-Pinzón graduated from Universidad de los Andes with a B.A in Literature and a J.D in Law. He received his PhD in Latin American Literature from New York University in 2012. He began his career at CUNY’s College of Staten Island, after which he joined Brown’s Hispanic Studies Department in 2015. His research and teaching interests include the literary and material cultures of Romanticism; ecocriticism and the representations of the tropics; visual and literary narratives of nation building; the historical novel and the Gothic; Colombian literature and culture; literatures of/about the Amazon; masculinities, heroism and the heroic in Latin America; the relations between poetry and popular music; the representations of the voice and recitation; the regional novel.
