Vanessa Pérez-Rosario is a translator and professor of English at Queens College and professor of Latin American, Iberian and Latino Cultures at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. Her teaching and research interest include U.S. Latinx and Caribbean literatures and cultures, transnational feminisms, poetics, and memory and archive studies. Her translations have appeared in The Nation, sx salon, and Kweli Journal. She translated ). Her work has appeared in numerous journals including Latino Studies Journal, CENTRO: The Journal of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies, Translation Review, and Meridians: feminism, race, transnationalism. She has received awards from the Woodrow Wilson and Mellon foundations, the American Association of University Women, and the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard University. She is on the Advisory Board of Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage Project at the University of Houston, and has served for four years as Associate Investigator, including one year as Interim-Principal Investigator at the CUNY-New York State Initiative on Emergent Bilinguals at The Graduate Center-CUNY, where she is currently in an advisory capacity.
ed. and trans. I Am My Own Path: Selected Works of Julia de Burgos (University of Texas Press, fall 2024).
Julia de Burgos: la creación de un ícono puertorriqueño (University of Illinois Press 2022).
Silver Award, Best Latina Themed Book category, and Honorable Mention, Dolores Huerta Best Cultural and Community Themed Book, 25th International Latino Book Awards, 2023
Boat People by Mayra Santos Febres, Translated by Vanessa Pérez-Rosario (Cardboard House Press 2021).
Honorable Mention, Best Bilingual Poetry Book, International Latino Book Awards, 2023
with Vivien Cao, Guide to Translanguaging in Latino/a Literature, CUNY-NYSIEB, The Graduate Center, (2015).
Becoming Julia de Burgos: The Making of a Puerto Rican Icon (Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2014).
ed. Hispanic Caribbean Literature of Migration: Narratives of Displacement. (New York: Palgrave, 2010).