Rate My Professor Ángel Díaz Miranda

Ángel Díaz Miranda is an associate professor of Spanish and Latin American Literature at Hollins University, holding the Elisabeth Lineberger Ramberg Chair in the Modern Languages department. He received his doctoral degree from Emory University and was an Andrew W. Mellon Fellow at Agnes Scott College in 2014. His scholarship centers on contemporary Mexican and Chilean poetry and literature from Modernismo to the present, examining their relations to violence, trauma, memory, biopolitics, and apocalyptic aesthetics. Díaz Miranda has presented his research at conferences nationally and internationally and serves as a guest editor for a special issue of Trasatlántica: Poetry and Scholarship on David Huerta's Incurable (1987). He is also a poet and co-founder of distropika.com, a platform dedicated to Puerto Rican and Latin American poetry.

Díaz Miranda's publications include peer-reviewed articles such as "La memoria en espiral: poéticas del trauma en Amuleto de Roberto Bolaño" (Revista de Estudios Hispánicos, 2020), "“El boxeador polaco”: operaciones mnemónicas e identitarias en la obra de Eduardo Halfon" (Cincinnati Romance Review, 2021), "Post-Apocalyptic Visions: Biopolitics, Late Capitalism, and Trauma in Children of Men and Naked City Spleen" (Transmodernity, 2016), and "La herida, el secreto y el fantasma: la irrupción de la voz poética del padre en la poesía de Leopoldo María Panero" (Hispanic Poetry Review, 2015). He contributed the chapter “Octavio Paz and the Institutions of Poetry” to The Cambridge History of Mexican Poetry (2024). His current book project, Archives of the Wound, traces modalities of psychological wounding and bodily harm in Mexican and Chilean literature and visual arts. As a poet, his collections Catálogo de inconsistencias (Editorial del Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña, 2019) and Escala Richter (Ediciones Acapulco) are forthcoming. In 2024, he was shortlisted for the SETI Institute's Cosmic Consciousness Artist-in-Residence program.