Kristian Van Haesendonck

Kristian Van Haesendonck taught Spanish and Latin American Literature and Culture in the United States (Princeton, Villanova) and is currently researcher in comparative Latin American, Spanish and Caribbean literatures at the Centre for Comparative Studies, University of Lisbon. He graduated in Romance Languages from the Catholic University of Louvain (Belgium) and obtained his PhD in Latin American Literature from Leiden University (The Netherlands). His book ¿Encanto o espanto? Identidad y nación en la novela puertorriqueña actual, a comparative study of contemporary Puerto Rican novels, was published by Vervuert-Iberoamericana (Frankfurt-Madrid 2008).