Alonso Rabí do Carmo

Alonso Rabí do Carmo (Lima, 1964) studied Literature at the National University of San Marcos in Lima, Peru and received his PhD in Spanish Language and Literature at the University of Colorado Boulder. He is an active literary critic, cultural journalist, and university professor. He currently teaches Language and Literature courses in the General Studies Program at the University of Lima and runs the Cinema de los Sentidos Program, a cultural program hosted by the RCR Regional Communication Network in Peru. He is also the author of a column on literature titled “En un lugar de La Mancha,” on the Sudaca.pe website. He has published three poetry collections: Concierto en el subterráneo (1992), Quieto vaho sobre el espejo (1994), and En un purísimo ramaje de vacíos (2000). In recent years, he published Archivo de recortes (2018) and Universo Mario Vargas Llosa (2019), and he edited the volume El texto literario: Aportes para su estudio (2020). Additionally, he published Antiguos y nuevos animales literarios, the expanded and definitive edition of Animales literarios (2008, 2016, and 2017).