Charlotte Rogers

I specialize in twentieth- and twenty-first-century literature, art, and culture from Latin America and the Caribbean. My research examines representations of the tropical Americas from postcolonial and environmental humanities perspectives. I’m interested in how both canonical and emerging literary texts and works of art engage with environmental change and imagine possible ecological futures. You can read more of my research on academia.edu.

At the University of Virginia, I’m a core faculty member in the Environmental Humanities, a founding member of the Interdisciplinary Doctoral Fellowship in Caribbean Literatures, Arts, and Cultures, a member of the Greater Caribbean Studies Network, and an active faculty member in the Ph.D. program in Spanish. From 2020-2023, I held the Lisa Smith Discovery Chair. Beginning in 2025, I will serve on the Editorial Board of the University of Virginia Press.

In the profession, I’ve served on the Peer Advisory Board of PMLA (2020-2023) and am currently on the Editorial Boards of the Revista de Estudios Hispánicos and ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and the Environment. I regularly serve as a reader for university press manuscripts.

PUBLICATIONS:

Books:

Rogers, Charlotte. Mourning El Dorado: Literature and Extractivism in the American Tropics. University of Virginia Press, 2019.

Rogers, Charlotte. Jungle Fever: Exploring Madness and Medicine in Twentieth-Century Tropical Narratives. Vanderbilt University Press, 2012.

Peer-reviewed Articles:

Rogers, Charlotte. “A Multispecies Caribbean: The Aesthetics of Ecological Reinvention in Art by Dhara Rivera”. Small Axe, vol. 73, no. 3, 2024, pp. 20-38, https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-11131174.

Rogers, Charlotte. “Eco-Magical Realism: An Eco-critical Interpretation of the Hurricane in Gabriel García Márquez’s The Autumn of the Patriarch”. ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, vol. 28, no. 4, 2021, pp. 1579–1598, https://doi.org/10.1093/isle/isaa111.

Book Chapters:

Rogers, Charlotte. “An Ecological Marvelous Realism: Carpentier’s Teeming American Tropics”. Carpentier in Context, edited by Anke Birkenmaier, Cambridge University Press, Forthcoming.

Rogers, Charlotte. “Locura tropical e innovación literaria en La vorágine”. La Vorágine: Centenario de un Clásico Latinoamericano. Textos Críticos (1988 – 2024), edited by Jennifer French and Felipe Martínez, Ediciones Uniandes, 2024, pp. 137-4.

Rogers, Charlotte. “Art and Debt in the Oldest Colony: Creative Resistance in Contemporary Puerto Rican Culture”. The Routledge Companion to Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Latin American Literary and Cultural Forms, edited by Mariano Siskind and Guillermina de Ferrari, Routledge, 2022, pp. 234-46, https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429058912-26.

Rogers, Charlotte. “The Environmentalism of Poor Women of Color in Mayra Santos Febres’s Nuestra Señora de la Noche”. Ecofictions, Ecorealities and Slow Violence in Latin America and the Latinx World, edited by Ilka Kressner et al., Routledge, 2020, pp. 180-96.

Other Publications:

Rogers, Charlotte. “The Elusive Promise of El Dorado in the Latin American Literary Imagination”. El Dorado: Myths of Gold, Art catalog essay. The Americas Society, 2024.

Rogers, Charlotte, Rebecca Elise Foote, and Winnie Pérez Martínez. “Coasts in Crisis: Caribbean Arts and Cultures After Hurricanes”. Archipelagos: A Journal of Caribbean Digital Praxis, 2023.

Rogers, Charlotte. Rita Indiana’s Queer Interspecies Caribbean and the Hispanic Literary Tradition. Small Axe Salon, 2020.