Vera Kutzinski

Vera M. Kutzinski
Nationality	American
Occupation(s)	Academic and researcher
Title	Martha Rivers Ingram Professor of English
Awards	Alexander Bouchet Prize for Excellence in Afro-American Studies Theron Rockwell Field Prize Gustave Arlt Award in the Humanities
Academic background
Education	Smith College Yale University

• 1981 - Alexander Bouchet Prize for Excellence in Afro-American Studies, Yale
• 1985 - Theron Rockwell Field Prize (for dissertation)
• 1987 - Gustave Arlt Award in the Humanities for Against the American Grain, National Council of Graduate Schools
• 1988 - Mellon Fellowship
• 1992 - Ford Foundation Faculty Research Grant
• 2008 - Gerda Henkel Foundation Grant,
• 2009 - Alexander von Humboldt Foundation TransCoop Grant
• 2010 - NEH Grant for HiE project

Bibliography

Scholarly books and translations

• Against the American Grain: Myth and History in William Carlos Williams, Jay Wright, and Nicolás Guillén (1987) ISBN   9780801833304
• Sugar's Secrets: Race and the Erotics of Cuban Nationalism (1993) ISBN   9780813914671
• The Worlds of Langston Hughes: Modernism and Translation in the Americas (2012) ISBN   9780801466243
• Writing-between-Worlds. TransArea Studies and the Literatures-without-a-fixed-Abode by Ottmar Ette (2016) ISBN   9783110462876
• Alexander von Humboldt: The Complete Drawings from the American Travel Diaries. Ed. Mayer and Ottmar Ette (2018). ISBN   9783791383545
• Langston Hughes in Context. Ed. Kutzinski and Anthony Reed. (2022). ISBN   9781009057783

Select articles and book chapters

• "The Logic of Wings: Gabriel García Márquez and Afro American Literature." Latin American Literary Review 13 (1985): 133 146.
• "Changing Permanences: Historical and Literary Revisionism in Robert Hayden's 'Middle Passage." Callaloo 9 (1986): 171-83.
• "Unseasonal Flowers: Nature and History in Plácido and Jean Toomer." Yale Journal of Criticism 3:2 (Spring 1990): 153-179.
• "Borders and Bodies: America, the United States, and the Caribbean." New Centennial Review 1.2 (2001): 53-86.
• "Wilson Harris’s Phantom Bodies. Re-reading the Subject." Theatre of the Arts. Wilson Harris and the Caribbean. Ed. Hena Maes-Jelinek and Benedicte Ledent. Amsterdam & New York: Rodopi, 2002: 139-151.
• "Caribbean Literary History and its Sexual Others." Caribbean Interfaces. Ed. Lieven D’hulst, Jean-Marc Moura, Liesbeth De Bleeker and Nadia Lie. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2007: 35-45.
• "Literature as Knowledge for Living, Literary Scholarship as Science for Living" by Ottmar Ette. Translated and edited, with an Introduction (A Survival Kit for the Humanities?). PMLA 125.4 (2010): 977-993.

References

1. Walker, John (November 1, 1988). "Vera M. Kutzinski. Against the American Grain: Myth and History in William Carlos Williams, Jay Wright, and Nicolás Guillén. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1987. xii + 298pp. $29.50". Romance Quarterly. 35 (4): 505–506. doi:10.1080/08831157.1988.9925873 – via Taylor and Francis+NEJM.
2. Kutzinski, Vera M. (February 9, 2018). Sugar's Secrets: Race and the Erotics of Cuban Nationalism. University Press of Virginia. ISBN   9780813914671 – via www.upress.virginia.edu.
3. Kutzinski, Vera M. (2012). The Worlds of Langston Hughes: Modernism and Translation in the Americas. Cornell University Press. ISBN   9780801451157. JSTOR   10.7591/j.cttq42qx.
4. Communications, Vanderbilt Division of. "Yale Professor Vera M. Kutzinski to run Vanderbilt Center for the Americas, Research at center will cross geographical and disciplinary boundaries". Vanderbilt University.
5. "Alexander von Humboldt in English". press.uchicago.edu.
6. "New World Studies".
7. "The Cambridge History of Latin American Literature". Cambridge Core.
8. Farebrother, Rachel (June 27, 2013). "The Worlds of Langston Hughes: Modernism and Translation in the Americas by Vera M. Kutzinski (review)". Modernism/Modernity. 20 (2): 391–393. doi:10.1353/mod.2013.0028. S2CID   144826638 – via Project MUSE.
9. Kutzinski, Vera M. (December 1, 2009). "Translations of Cuba: Fernando Ortiz, Alexander von Humboldt, and the curious case of John Sidney Thrasher". Atlantic Studies. 6 (3): 303–326. doi:10.1080/14788810903264779. S2CID   162078480 – via Taylor and Francis+NEJM.
10. Ette, Ottmar (November 7, 2017). Writing-between-Worlds: TransArea Studies and the Literatures-without-a-fixed-Abode. De Gruyter. ISBN   9783110462876 – via www.degruyter.com.
11. Kutzinski, Vera M. (October 1, 2016). "Unspeakable things translated: Langston Hughes's poems in post-World War II Germanies". Atlantic Studies. 13 (4): 535–559. doi:10.1080/14788810.2016.1214798. S2CID   163570948 – via Taylor and Francis+NEJM.
12. Political Essay on the Island of Cuba. Alexander von Humboldt in English. University of Chicago Press – via press.uchicago.edu.
13. Views of the Cordilleras and Monuments of the Indigenous Peoples of the Americas. Alexander von Humboldt in English. University of Chicago Press – via press.uchicago.edu.
14. Political Essay on the Kingdom of New Spain, Volume 1. Alexander von Humboldt in English. University of Chicago Press – via press.uchicago.edu.
15. Kutzinski, Vera M. (June 1, 2010). "Alexander von Humboldt's transatlantic personae". Atlantic Studies. 7 (2): 99–112. doi:10.1080/14788811003700209. S2CID   162360516 – via Taylor and Francis+NEJM.