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Gerard Aching specializes in 19th- and 20th-century Caribbean literatures and intellectual histories, theories of modernism and modernity in Latin America, and 19th-century colonial literatures in the Caribbean, with a specific focus on the relations between slavery, literary sensibility, and philosophy. In the contemporary period, he has worked on visual regimes and politics in Caribbean popular cultures. He is the author of The Politics of Spanish American Modernismo: By Exquisite Design (Cambridge, 1997) and Masking and Power: Carnival and Popular Culture in the Caribbean (Minnesota, 2002). He is currently completing a book-length manuscript called Freedom From Liberation: Slavery and Literary Sensibility in Cuba, in which he engages with seminal historians and philosophers on slavery in order to account for the birth of a national literature and to interrogate an experience of modernity in the Americas. Aching has been the recipient of a Howard Foundation Fellowship (Brown University, 1999) and a Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship (2003).