Kahlil Chaar-Pérez
Managing Editor e-misférica

Kahlil Chaar-Pérez is a PhD student at the Department of Spanish and Portuguese Languages and Literatures at New York University and was awarded a Ford Foundation Diversity Dissertation Writing Fellowship in 2009. He holds a BA in Comparative Literature from the Universidad de Puerto Rico, Recinto de Río Piedras and a MA in Comparative Literature from the University of Chicago. His interests are, in no particular order, 19th and 20th century Caribbean and Latin American literatures, theatre, and cultural production, colonial and postcolonial studies, political philosophy, critical theory, and theories of affect. His essay on Roberto Bolaño's Estrella distante and the politics of mourning in post-dictatorship Chile will be published in the Winter 2011 issue of Revista Iberoamericana. He has presented papers on the intersections of romantic affect, race, and colonialism in Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda's Sab and Alejandro Tapia y Rivera's La cuarterona, on revolutionary anti-colonialism and inter-Caribbean imaginaries in the political texts of Ramón Emeterio Betances, as well as on abjection in José Donoso's El lugar sin límites. He is currently finishing his dissertation, tentatively titled "Uncanny Bonds: Imaginaries of Colonialism and Anti-Colonialism in 19th Century Cuba and Puerto Rico.”