After his Ph.D. work at the University of Texas at Austin focusing on seventeenth-century Ibero-American poetics, Christopher C. Lund taught Luso-Brazilian literature at Rutgers University. During his Rutgers years, he catalogued the Portuguese Manuscripts Collection at the Library of Congress. Brigham Young University recruited him in 1992 where he thrived on teaching Fernando Pessoa and Camões. He coordinated the Latin American Studies Department at BYU for nine years. He continues to be transported by the literature of the Baroque, of which Predestined is a fine example.