Israel Reyes
Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese
Director of Fellowships, Office of the Provost
Israel Reyes is an Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese at Dartmouth College, the former Chair of the Latin American, Latino, and Caribbean Studies Program, and holds an Adjunct Appointment with the Comparative Literature Program. He also serves as the Director of Fellowships in the Office of the Provost and organizes mentoring and professional development for a cohort of pre- and postdoctoral fellows. In 2019 he joined the board of co-directors of the Futures of American Studies Institute, where he presented his recent publication, "Decolonizing Queer Camp in Edwin Sánchez's Diary of a Puerto Rican Demigod."
Professor Reyes teaches and conducts research on Latin American, Puerto Rican, and US Latinx literatures and cultures. He received his BA in Creative Writing and English from the University of Illinois-Chicago and his Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of Iowa. His publications include his 2005 book, Humor and the Eccentric Text in Puerto Rican Literature, published by University Press of Florida, and scholarly articles on Judith Ortiz Cofer, Lalo Alcaraz, Nemesio Canales, Cristina García, Ana Lydia Vega, and Manuel Ramos Otero. He is currently finishing a book manuscript titled Embodied Economies: Diaspora and Transcultural Capital in Hispanic Caribbean Fiction and Theater, which examines upward mobility and the material and bodily practices that emerge as part of the diasporic experience.