T. Urayoán Noel

Associate Professor

Education

Ph.D. (Spanish), New York University, 2008;

M.A. (Spanish), Stanford University, 1999;

B.A. (English), Universidad de Puerto Rico, Río Piedras, 1998

External Affiliations

Translator, The Puerto Rican Literature Project (PLPR); Contributing Editor, Obsidian: Literature & Arts in the African Diaspora; Contributing Editor, NACLA Report on the Americas; Faculty Board, The Latinx Project; Editorial Board, Intervenxions; Board of Directors, The Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural Center

Fellowships/Honors

Macondo Writers Workshop faculty (2022); New York Public Library Books of the Year (2021); Longlist, PEN Open Book Award (2021); CantoMundo faculty (2021); Schomburg Center Fellowship (2020); Judge, Gulf Coast Prize in Translation (2020); Finalist, Best Translated Book Award (2020); Finalist, National Translation Award for Poetry (2019); Macondo Writers Workshop fellow in Creative Nonfiction (2019); Helena María Viramontes Lecture in Latina/o Literature (2017); Howard Foundation Fellowship (2016); Judge, PEN Award for Poetry in Translation (2016); Honorable Mention, MLA Prize in United States Latina and Latino and Chicana and Chicano Literary and Cultural Studies (2015); LASA Book Award for Best Monograph in Latina/o Studies (2015); CantoMundo fellow (2013); Finalist, Paz Prize for Poetry, National Poetry Series (2012); Finalist, New York Foundation for the Arts Poetry Fellowship (2011); Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship (2011); National Book Critics Circle Small Press Highlights (2010); El Nuevo Día Books of the Year (2008)

Bio

Urayoán Noel is Associate Professor of English and Spanish and Portuguese at New York University, and has also taught at SUNY Albany and at Stetson University's MFA of the Americas. He is the author of In Visible Movement: Nuyorican Poetry from the Sixties to Slam (Iowa, 2014), the first book-length study of Nuyorican poetry, which received the LASA Latino Studies Section Book Prize and the MLA Prize in United States Latina and Latino and Chicana and Chicano Literary and Cultural Studies Honorable Mention. He has also published several books of poetry, including Buzzing Hemisphere/Rumor Hemisférico (2015) and Transversal (2021), both with the University of Arizona Press, the latter of which was a New York Public Library Book of the Year and was longlisted for the PEN Open Book Award. Noel has been a finalist for the National Translation Award and the Best Translated Book Award for his translations of Latin American poetry, and he is currently a translator for The Puerto Rican Literature Project (PLPR). 

His international performances include Poesiefestival Berlin, Barcelona Poesia, and the Toronto Biennial of Art, and his work has been exhibited at the Museum of the City of New York and the Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico. Noel has published essays in New Literary History, American Literary History, Small Axe, Contemporary Literature, Latino Studies, CENTRO Journal, and in books such as The Cambridge History of Latina/o Literature and The Routledge Companion to Latino/a Literature.

Publications

  • • Transversal (poetry). Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2021.
    Transversal
  • • Architecture of Dispersed Life: Selected Poetry by Pablo de Rokha. Ed./Trans/Intro. Bristol, U.K.: Shearsman Books, 2018.
    Architecture
  • Buzzing Hemisphere/Rumor Hemisférico (poetry).
    Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2015.
  • In Visible Movement: Nuyorican Poetry from the Sixties to Slam.
    Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2014.
  • EnUncIAdOr (poetry). Cabo Rojo, PR: Editora Educación Emergente, 2014.
  • Los días porosos (poetry). Guatemala: Catafixia Editorial, 2012. (2nd ed. San Juan: Atarraya Cartonera, 2014.)
  • Hi-Density Politics (poetry). Buffalo: BlazeVox Books, 2010.
  • Boringkén (poetry, with CD). San Juan: Ediciones Callejón/Librería La Tertulia, 2008.
  • Kool Logic/La lógica kool (poetry). Tempe: Bilingual Press, 2005.
  • “'The Geography of Their Complexion': Nuyorican Poetry and Its Legacies.” The Cambridge History of Latina/o Literature. Ed. Laura Lomas and John Morán González. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, forthcoming.
  • “Remediating the Latin@ Sixties.” American Literary History, special issue, “Reading and Writing Archives.” Ed. Thomas Augst. 29:2. (2017): 374-95.
  • “Notas para una poética del performance: Pedro Pietri y el corpus de la poesía puertorriqueña.” Escrituras en contrapunto: Estudios y debates para una historia crítica de la literatura puertorriqueña. Rio Piedras: U of Puerto Rico, 2015: 554-70.
  • “Teaching U.S. Latino/a Poetry in the Age of Social Media.” Latino/a Literature in the Classroom: 21st Century Approaches to Teaching. Ed. Frederick Luis Aldama. New York: Routledge, 2015. 131-40.
  • “On Out of Focus Nuyoricans, Noricuas, and Performance Identities.” Liminalities: A Journal of Performance Studies, special issue, "On Poetry Worlds.” Ed. Jen Vernon and Bill Marsh. 10: 3/4 (2014). Web.
  • “For a Caribbean American Graininess: William Carlos Williams, Translator.” Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism, special issue, “Translating the Caribbean.” Ed. Kaiama L. Glover and Martin Munro. 17:3 (2013): 138-50.
  • “Poetry.” Routledge Companion to Latino/a Literature. Ed. Frances Aparicio and Suzanne Bost. London: Routledge, 2012: 285-98.
  • “Bodies that Antimatter: Locating U.S. Latino/a Poetry, 2000-2009.” Contemporary Literature, special issue, "Poetry of the 2000's.” Ed. Michael Davidson. 52.4 (2011): 852-82.
  • “Counter/Public Address: Nuyorican Poetries in the Slam Era.” Latino Studies 9.1 (2011): 38-61.
  • “From Spanglish to Glossolalia: Edwin Torres’s Nuyo-Futurist Utopia.” Diasporic Avant-Gardes: Experimental Poetics and Cultural Displacement. Ed. Barrett Watten and Carrie Noland. New York: Palgrave, 2009: 225-42.