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Idelber Avelar received his Ph.D. from Duke University in 1996 and joined Tulane in 1999. He is a Full Professor specialized in contemporary Latin American fiction, literary theory, and Cultural Studies. He is the author of The Letter of Violence: Essays on Narrative, Ethics, and Politics (2004) and The Untimely Present: Postdictatorial Latin American Fiction and the Task of Mourning (1999), winner of the MLA Kovacs prize and also published in Spanish and Portuguese. He has coedited with Christophe Dunn Brazilian Popular Music and Citizenship, forthcoming from Duke University Press in 2011.  He has published over 50 articles on Latin American literature, culture, and music in scholarly journals in Europe and the Americas, has been the recipient of Rockefeller, Ford, and Hewlett grants, and has recently won the Brazilian Foreign Ministry essay contest on Machado de Assis. He is on leave for the year 2010-2011, under the auspices of a fellowship form the American Council of Learned Societies, granted to his new book project, entitled "Rethinking Masculinity in Contemporary Brazilian and Argentinian Literatures."

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