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Rodney Lebrón-Rivera earned his Ph.D. from the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Princeton University. His research focuses on modern and contemporary Latin American literature from the 19th to the early 21st centuries. His dissertation, Escritura privada y subjetividad pública en América Latina. Entre el diario político y el diario de autor (1895-2017), examines written culture, specifically private diaries, and explores the articulation of the authorial role in the Latin American cultural field, as well as the configuration of diary writing as a literary form in Cuba, México, and Argentina. 

At Princeton, Lebrón-Rivera was awarded the Arcadio Díaz-Quiñones Teaching Award and, in 2023, received a grant from the McGraw Center for Teaching and Learning to develop Puerto Rico Storymaps, a digital pedagogy project. In Fall 2022, in collaboration with graduate students Andy Alfonso and Ashford King, he co-organized the Caribbean Studies Speaker Series: Sound, Archive, and Literature at Princeton University. 

His work has appeared in both academic and non-academic publications, including Centro Journal of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies (CUNY), Ámbito de Encuentros. Revista de la Universidad Ana G. Méndez, and Revista 80grados, among others.