Bécquer Seguín is Assistant Professor of Iberian studies at Johns Hopkins University. He was previously an Andrew W. Mellon and John E. Sawyer Seminar Fellow at Cornell University. His scholarly work has appeared or is forthcoming in boundary 2, diacritics, Hispanic Review, Hispania, ARTMargins, Radical Philosophy, and other journals. In addition to his scholarly work, he is a section editor for Public Books and has written for The Nation, Slate, Dissent, and other publications.