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Vicente Lecuna is a Professor and Chair at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York. He holds a PhD in Latin American Literature from the University of Pittsburgh (1996), an MA from the same university (1993), and a BA in Literature from the Universidad Central de Venezuela (1991). His research focuses on populism, violence, urban design, and contemporary narrative in Latin America. He has held visiting roles at institutions including the Universidad de Los Andes, Rice University, Harvard University’s David Rockefeller Centre, Brown University’s Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, and Princeton University.
Research interests include interdisciplinary cultural analysis, with emphases on political violence, urban space, and literary representation. Courses taught span Latin American cultural theory, narrative forms, and socio-political critiques of literature and media.
No academic awards or grants are explicitly listed in the provided materials. His professional trajectory includes extensive visiting scholar appointments and a prior affiliation with the Universidad Central de Venezuela’s Literature Department.
