Bio

Victoria A. Chevalier is Professor of English at Medgar Evers College/City University of New York, where she teaches a wide range of courses in the Department of English and World Languages, including African American, US Latinx, Caribbean, and Latin American Literature. She is also faculty at the Graduate Center, CUNY. Her co-edited anthology, The Palgrave Handbook of Magical Realism in the Twenty-First Century, was published in May 2020. Her book manuscript in progress focuses on the development of literary figure in the twenty-first century neo-slave narrative. Her most recent publication on the shaping force of Langston Hughes’s debut poem “The Negro Speaks of Rivers” upon twenty-first century African American literature appeared in The Langston Hughes Review’s Special Edition: The Negro Speaks of Rivers at 100 in September 2021. Professor Chevalier’s other peer-reviewed works appear in Contemporary U.S. Latino/a Literary Criticism, Twentieth Century Literary Criticism, Review: Literature and Arts of the Americas, and literary fiction anthologies. Professor Chevalier received her PhD in English Language and Literatures from Cornell University and her BA in English from City College of New York (CUNY). Professor Chevalier is a born and raised Brooklynite, although she currently resides in Manhattan.