Graduate Student
5118 Dwinelle Hall
cpmartinezr@berkeley.edu
Claudia Martínez Rivera is a Puerto Rican PhD student in Hispanic Languages and Literatures at the University of California, Berkeley. She holds a Master of Arts in English Literature Specialized in Feminist and Gender Studies from the University of Ottawa, for which she completed a thesis titled Yo digo lo que me da la gana: Using Spanglish Translational Strategies to Redefine Puerto Rico in the Poetry of Roque Raquel Salas Rivera. She also holds a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature from the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras. Her research interests include contemporary Puerto Rican poetry, translation studies, de/anticolonial theory and praxis, and literary and cultural production in the broader Hispanic Caribbean.
