Teresa Clifton is the Special Collections and Engagement Librarian at The Doris Z. Stone Latin American Library and Research Center. A Tulane alumna, she also holds a PhD from Brown University with a dissertation on the pastoral mode in 17th-century Mexican fiction. She has taught at Berea College and at the University of Pittsburgh, where she served as Director of Undergraduate Studies. She was a J. M. Stuart Fellow at the John Carter Brown Library and is involved in several publication projects, including a translation of late-20th-century Puerto Rican poetry and book chapters on the transatlantic history of pastoral fiction.