Ingrid Robyn earned a Ph.D. in Latin American Literature and an M.A. in Luso-Brazilian Literature at the University of Texas at Austin. Her research work focuses on the legacy of the Avant-Garde in Brazil and the Caribbean, with a concentration in Cuba. She is particularly interested in the dialogues between intellectual history, literature, visual arts and music, as well as the impact of modernization processes in contemporary regimes of perception and representation. Currently, Ingrid Robyn is working on her first book, Rostros del reverso: José Lezama Lima en la encrucijada vanguardista, as well as in the translation of the first collection of poems by Cuban writer Lorenzo García Vega to Portuguese. She has also published and presented several papers on Spanish and Latin American Neobaroques, as well as contemporary Caribbean and Brazilian writers such as Reinaldo Arenas, Alberto Garrandés, Ángel Lozada, Haroldo de Campos, Paulo Leminsky and others. She is, above all, a passionate and dedicated professor who enjoys to share with her students, dare them to think beyond their comfort zone, and see them grow intellectually. She is also the co-founder and an active collaborator of the online literary journal El roommate: colectivo de lectores (http://elroommate.com/).