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• Zaira O. Rivera Casellas, critical essayist and university professor in the Department of Hispanic Studies of the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus. She has published articles on literature and racial identities in journals such as the Afro-Hispanic Review, Cincinnati Romance Review, Revista Ártemis, Sociocriticism and Revista Iberoamericana. She has collaborated on the anthologies Escrituras en contrapunto: estudios y debates para una historia crítica de la literatura puertorriqueña (2015) and Contrapunto de género y raza (2005). Her book Bajo la sombra del texto, la crítica y el silencio: discurso racial en Puerto Rico (2015) brings together critical essays on race and literature in Puerto Rico. She is currently researching and working on a manuscript on racial representations, national imaginaries, and gender from an Afro-diasporic perspective.