Araceli Tinajero (Ph.D., Rutgers University) is Professor of Spanish at the Graduate Center and City College of New York, CUNY. Her research interests include: Literary and intellectual history; Orientalisms; transpacific studies; Mexican, Caribbean and Latino literatures in comparative perspective; and transatlantic studies. She is the author of Kokoro, una mexicana en Japón (Verbum, 2012); El lector de tabaquería (University of Texas Press, 2010); and Orientalismo en el modernismo hispanoamericano (Purdue University Press, 2004).