About Professor Araceli Tinajero 

Araceli Tinajero was born and raised in Mexico City. Before joining CUNY, she taught Japanese at the University of Wales in Great Britain and Spanish at Middlebury and Yale. She teaches at the Graduate Center and is the co-founder of the Mexican Study Group at the Bildner Center for Western Hemisphere Studies and the founder of The Mexican Collection / La Colección Mexicana/ at CCNY Libraries. Tinajero is the Book Review Editor of the journal Asia/América Latina http://www.asiaamericalatina.org/. Araceli is the author of Orientalismo en el modernismo hispanoamericano; El lector de tabaquería (Eng. El Lector: A History of the Cigar Factory Reader); Kokoro, una mexicana en Japón (Eng. Kokoro: A Mexican Woman in Japan); and Historia cultural de los hipanohablantes en Japón (Eng. A Cultural History of Spanish Speakers in Japan). Tinajero is the editor of Cultura y letras cubanas en el siglo XXI, Exilio y cosmopolitismo en el arte y la literatura hispánica, and Orientalisms of the Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian World. She has co-edited two volumes: Technology and Culture in Twentieth Century México [with J. Brian Freeman] and Handbook on Cuban History, Literature, and the Arts: New Perspectives on Historical and Contemporary Social Change [with Mauricio Font].

Professor Tinajero will be using the Stuart Z. Katz Professorship to advance in her book manuscript: "Asia in the Caribbean/El Caribe in Asia." This project focuses on the work of contemporary Caribbean writers and artists that represent elements of the Far East (China, India, and Japan) in their works as well as in the cultural production of writers and artists based in Asia.

About Stuart Z. Katz Professorship

The Stuart Z. Katz Professorship in the Humanities & the Arts at The City College of New York was established in 2017 by a generous gift from Mr. Stuart Z. Katz, a 1964 Phi Beta Kappa graduate of CCNY. The endowment supports one outstanding professorial faculty member in the Division of Humanities & the Arts for an academic year, providing the professor up to two months of summer salary plus $10,000 to support research and creative activity. 

Mr. Katz, a retired attorney, established the gift for the importance of the study of humanities and the arts for a thorough education and life.