Celina Manzoni holds a doctorate in Literature from the University of Buenos Aires and is a professor of Latin American Literature at the Faculty of Arts of the same University. A researcher at the Institute of Latin American Literature, she heads research teams specialized in the area and has created the Caribbean Studies Group. She had a scholarship from DAAD at the Instituto Iberoamericano de Berlín and from UBA at Princeton University. In 2000 she received the Premio Ensayo Internacional Casa de las Américas, Havana for Un dilema cubano. Nacionalismo y vanguardia. She has published numerous articles in books and academic journals in the specialty and has given courses and lectures in Latin America, the United States and Europe. Other books: El mordisco imaginario. Crítica de la crítica de Pablo Palacio (1994). José Martí. El presidio político en Cuba. Último diario y otros textos (1995). Roberto Bolaño: la escritura como tauromaquia (2002). La fugitiva contemporaneidad. Narrativa latinoamericana 1999-2000 (2003). Violencia y silencio. Literatura latinoamericana contemporánea (2005). Vanguardistas en su tinta. Documentos de la vanguardia en América Latina (2007).