Deborah Paredez

425 Hamilton Hall

Deborah Paredez
Director of Undergraduate Studies, Associate Professor of Professional Practice in Writing, School of the Arts

Deborah Paredez is a poet and scholar. She is the author of the poetry collections, This Side of Skin (Wings Press 2002) and Year of the Dog (BOA Editions 2020), winner of the 2020 Writers’ League of Texas Poetry Book Award. Her critical study, Selenidad: Selena, Latinos, and the Performance of Memory (Duke 2009), was awarded the 2011 Chicana/o Studies Association Book Award Honorable Mention and the 2010 Latin American Studies Association Latino Studies Book Award Honorable Mention. Her poetry and essays have appeared in The New York TimesLos Angeles Review of BooksBoston ReviewNPR, and elsewhere. She is the co-founder of CantoMundo, a national organization dedicated to Latinx poets and poetry. Her book of literary nonfiction, American Diva, is forthcoming from Norton. At Columbia, Professor Paredez is a recipient of a 2020-21 Lenfest Distinguished Faculty Award. She received her Ph.D. from Northwestern University.

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Deborah Paredez
Deborah Paredez
Director of Undergraduate Studies, Associate Professor of Professional Practice in Writing, School of the Arts

425 Hamilton Hall

Deborah Paredez is a poet and scholar. She is the author of the poetry collections, This Side of Skin (Wings Press 2002) and Year of the Dog (BOA Editions 2020), winner of the 2020 Writers’ League of Texas Poetry Book Award. Her critical study, Selenidad: Selena, Latinos, and the Performance of Memory (Duke 2009), was awarded the 2011 Chicana/o Studies Association Book Award Honorable Mention and the 2010 Latin American Studies Association Latino Studies Book Award Honorable Mention. Her poetry and essays have appeared in The New York TimesLos Angeles Review of BooksBoston ReviewNPR, and elsewhere. She is the co-founder of CantoMundo, a national organization dedicated to Latinx poets and poetry. Her book of literary nonfiction, American Diva, is forthcoming from Norton. At Columbia, Professor Paredez is a recipient of a 2020-21 Lenfest Distinguished Faculty Award. She received her Ph.D. from Northwestern University.

For Office Hours, click this DUS appointment link.

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