Carlos Varón GonzálezCarlos Varón González is an Assistant Professor at the University of California, Riverside. His work on the politics of aesthetics in Spain and Latin America, from José Martí to Marta Sanz, has appeared in Revista de Estudios ispánicos, the Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies, and Studies in Twentieth- and Twenty-First Century Literatures. His first book, 'La retirada del poema: Literatura hispánica e imaginación política moderna', addresses post-dictatorial ideas about poetry in Spain and Latin America (2020). His current research project, tentatively titled 'I Feel Your Pain: The Political Mobilization of Affect', concerns the affective practices and political struggle in Peninsular culture. This is the second book he has co-edited with the Transatlantic Literatures research group, after 'Shining Signs of the Day: Spaces and Senses in Transatlantic Culture' (2019). Read More Read Less