Ricardo Quintana-Vallejo is an assistant professor of English at Rhode Island College. He is the author of Children of Globalization: Diasporic Coming-of-age Novels in Germany, England, and the United States (Routledge, 2021).

His research focuses on contemporary diasporas and global migration in coming-of-age novels and other narratives of youth development—written in the context of globalized and de facto multicultural societies. His essays have appeared in Literary Geographies, Norteamérica, The North Meridian Review, and Chasqui, and in several edited volumes.

He grew up in Mexico City.