Fall 2016 seminar: Ph.D. candidate, romance studies
Félix Miguel Rosario Ortiz is a second-year Ph.D. student in romance studies. Prior to Cornell, he received his bachelor's degree in Hispanic studies from the University of Puerto Rico (2013), where he focused on the notion of spectacle in Caribbean literature. His research interests include Latin American existentialism and the poetics of poets who assert the verse — especially the prose to discourse about literary creation. His project as a Mellon Fellow will consider the symbolic metabolization of insularism as an existentialist element along with the triumph of urbanity in Cuban fiction.