Maru Pabón is a Puerto Rican scholar and translator. She is an assistant professor of Comparative Literature at Brown University. Her current book project examines efforts to construct the “voice of the people” across Palestinian, Cuban, and Algerian poetry throughout the long 60s. Along with Laure Guirguis, she is the co-editor of the volume Art and Politics Between the Arab World and Latin America, forthcoming with Brill in Spring 2025. Her writing and research has appeared in Middle Eastern Literatures, Kohl: A Journal for Body and Gender Research, Bidoun, Momus, and Bidayat.