Compli-Carlos began eleven years ago while I was pursuing an MFA in Spanish Creative Writing at New York University under the Banco Santander Spanish Creative Writing Fellowship. Its former address on Blogspot was www.eniocuadrado.com. I am deeply in debt with NYU and acknowledge the privilege I had. It allowed me to nurture myself as a writer among other writers, and provided me with the time and invaluable resources inherent to meet the higher expectations set by the Program. During those years, I experienced for the first time what it is to read and write without drawing time from sleep, or tricking the stings of hunger with water and crackers, as my previous financial condition forced me to do. In addition, NYU gave me time to incorporate myself gradually into the discovering of the Internet: to explore its possibilities regarding the production of (high-quality) literature. I take into account all these aspects every time I stop to make the neverending reality check that keeps me honest and fighting to avoid having a short-term memory.
About eight years later (2015) I was granted admission to the Ph.D. in Romance Studies (Spanish) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Here I earned a graduate certificate in Digital Humanities, and completed successfully the first dissertatin with a digital component in our department. You are very welcome to visit Odenrgraund.com, a hypertextual and playful critical edition of the homonymous novel written by Puerto Rican author Juan Antonio Rodríguez Pagán, who died in november 2007. His first attempt to make this work available to the public can be found at www.ondergraund.blosgspot.com.
I thank you all for taking the chance to know my projects better.
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