Vanessa K. Valdés

Vanessa K. Valdés is an Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese at The City College of New York – CUNY. Her research interests include comparative studies of the literatures of the African Diaspora in the Americas, particularly in the Spanish Caribbean, Brazil, and the United States. She currently serves as Book Review Editor of s/x salon, an online literary salon on Caribbean literature and culture. She is the editor of The Future Is Now: A New Look at African Diaspora Studies (2012) and Let Spirit Speak! Cultural Journeys through the African Diaspora (2012). She is the author of Oshun’s Daughters: The Search for Womanhood in the Americas (2014).