Pedro Javier Rolón Machado

Education:

B.A., Literature, Yale University; M.A., Creative Writing, University of California, Berkeley; Ph.D., Comparative Literature, University of California, Berkeley

Dissertation:

Waves in Time: Erosion and The Puerto Rican Subject Beyond Place, 1863-Present

Thesis Advisor:

Francine Masiello, Professor of Comparative Literature and Spanish & Portuguese, University of California, Berkeley

Research Topic:

My research project focuses on erosion as both aesthetic-poetic gesture and as a political analytic in Puerto Rican and Caribbean literature and culture between the 19th and 21st centuries

Mentor:

Adriana Johnson, Professor of Comparative Literature, University of California, Irvine

Current Position:

President's and Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Comparative Literature, University of California, Irvine