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Paula Cucurella teaches literature, theory, and creative writing at the Bilingual Creative Writing Department at the University of Texas at El Paso and Philosophy at EPCC. She has a PhD in comparative literature from SUNY, Buffalo. She is a poet and also a translator. Her numerous articles have appeared in the New Centennial Review, Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos, and Revista Laboratorio, among others. Her first book, Poesía en tiempos de guerra: Jacques Derrida y Nicanor Parra, will be published in 2020 by Pólvora Editorial (Santiago, Chile), and her first poetry collection, Demasiada luz para hacer poesía, will appear published in March 2020 (Doblea Editores, Santiago, Chile). She has translated two literary theory books (David Johnson, El Mundo en Llamas and El can de Kant: En torno a Borges, la filosofía y el tiempo de la traducción), cotranslated Carlos Estévez, Bottles to the Sea, and is currently cotranslating Rosa Alcalá’s MyOther Tongue.