Carlos Uxó

Dr. Carlos Uxó is Senior Lecturer in Spanish and Latin American Studies at Monash University. He has published close to fifty academic articles and book chapters, mostly on Cuban crime fiction, representations of Afro-Cuban characters in Cuban narrative fiction, and, more recently, politics and food writing in Cuba. He is the author of El género policial en Cuba: Novela policial revolucionaria, neopolicial y teleseries (Peter Lang: 2021), and Representaciones del personaje del negro en la narrativa cubana. Una perspectiva desde los Estudios Subalternos (Verbum, 2010), and editor of The Detective Fiction of Leonardo Padura Fuentes (MMU: 2006).