(Ph.D. Catholic University of America, 1998), Professor of Spanish at The University of Georgia, has research interests in Latin American & Spanish Poetry, Cultural Studies and Critical Theory, Cervantes in the Americas, Science (Cosmology) and Literature, and Literature in the Age of the Internet.  He is the author of Cervantes y/en (las) Américas: mapa de campo y ensayo de bibliografía razonada (2006), Una historia apócrifa de América: el arte de la conjetura histórica de Pedro Gómez Valderrama (2003), Todas las muertes de Pinochet: Notas literarias para una biografía crítica (2000), and Lengua muerta: Poesía, post-literatura & erotismo en Enrique Lihn (1996). Co-editor (with Silvia Nagy-Zekmi) of Arte de vivir: acercamientos críticos a la poesía de Pedro Lastra (2007). His poetry books are: Cosmological Me (forthcoming), Mester de soltería (2006, second edition in 2008), Diario de un poeta recién divorciado (2005), Divina Pastora (1998), Rosario de actos de habla (1993), Ojo de buey (1993), and Bajo la pequeña música de su pie (1990). Other publications include guest-editions, anthologies, book chapters, articles, notes, reviews, and poems in collective books and several refereed journals in Latin America, Europe and the United States. He has lectured in many universities in the United States, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Spain, Hungary, and Germany. He has been Visiting Professor at the State University of New York-Albany, and Writer in Residence at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile.