Christina León

Christina A. León is Assistant Professor of English at Princeton University where she focuses on Latinx, Caribbean, and hemispheric literatures, in addition to critical engagements with feminist theory, queer theory, and performance studies. She is currently at work on her first book, entitled Radiant Opacity: Aesthetic, Ethical, and Material Relations in Latinidad. Her writing has been featured in ASAP/Journal, Post 45, Sargasso: A Journal of Caribbean Language, Literature & Culture, Small Axe, and Women and Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory, in addition to translations in the forthcoming Havana Reader (Duke University Press).

Tune in to Christina León’s episode on the Choose to be Curious podcast:

• “Curious Entanglements, with Christina León”

Want to teach Christina León’s Curiosity Studies chapter? Consider pairing with:

• Edouard Glissant, “For Opacity,” in The Poetics of Relation (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1997), 189–194.