Jeffrey Herlihy-Mera is catedrático of Humanities and director of the Instituto Nuevos Horizontes at the Universidad de Puerto Rico-Mayagüez. He has served as Obama Fellow, Fulbright Distinguished Chair, Fulbright Scholar, and NEH Endowed Chair of Transnational/Migrant Studies. His books include Academic Imperialism (with Héctor José Huyke, forthcoming, Provocations Books), Decolonizing American Spanish (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2022), After American Studies (Routledge, 2018), Paris in American Literatures,edited with Vamsi K. Koneru (Bloomsbury, 2013), and In Paris or Paname (Brill, 2011). He edits Tinta regadaand Nuevos Horizontes, and holds a PhD from the Universidad Pompeu Fabra.
Jeffrey Herlihy-Mera
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Edward Said, My Grandfather, and the Problem of Home
“Said’s ‘Reflections on Exile’ summoned to mind the only 7 words my grandfather ever said to me about Ireland, where he had cousins he never knew: ‘I don’t think I’ll go back there.’”
Did Don Quixote Long for Muslim Spain?
Between the lines, Cervantes critiqued the Catholic church, and lamented over the systematic destruction of Islamic culture in Spain.
