Victoria BaenaVictoria Baena is a PhD candidate in comparative literature at Yale University. Her essays and reviews have appeared in Boston Review, Los Angeles Review of Books, Diacritics, and elsewhere. Her academic research focuses on the modern nvel and narrative theory, with an eye to questions of gender, class, and empire across the Atlantic. She has also taught courses on translation and on literature and revolution at Yale College, Bard Microcollege at Brooklyn Public Library, and the Yale Prison Education Initiative.