María Auxiliadora Álvarez (Caracas, Venezuela) is a professor emerita at Miami University, Ohio, since 2023. Growing up in different countries due to her father’s diplomatic career, she settled in the United States in 1996, where she received a masters and doctorate degrees in Spanish Literature from the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. Her research areas include Mystical/ Contemporary Poetry; Pre-Columbian/Colonial Cultures; and Women, Cultural and Interdisciplinary Studies. She has published several critical articles in literary journals, two essay books, and fourteen poetry books.
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