About Esther Whitfield

Esther Whitfield is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Hispanic Studies at Brown University. She is author of Cuban Currency: The Dollar and "Special Period" Fiction (University of Minnesota Press, 2008) and co-editor, with Anke Birkenmaier, of a collection of essays on post-1989 Havana, Havana Beyond the Ruins (2011). She has published articles on literary writing in post-Soviet Cuba; Welsh-language writing in Patagonia; and borders, visibility, and surveillance at the Guantánamo naval base. Her current work focuses on representations of Guantánamo in art, literature, and law.