Frances is a historian of the revolutionary Atlantic, with a focus on slavery, abolition, and diaspora in the age of emancipation. Her dissertation, tentatively titled “‘In a State of Flight’: The...

Professor Tsien's primary area of research is the Enlightenment, especially Voltaire. In her first book, Voltaire and the Temple of Bad Taste  (published by SVEC, 2003), she focused on Voltaire's use...

Rashana Vikara Lydner (she/her) holds a Ph.D. in French and Francophone Studies with a Designated Emphasis in African and African American Studies (African Diaspora Studies) from the University of...

A. Blair Wilner is a doctoral student in the Religious Studies department at UVA. Blair's research interests include theology and ecology, postcolonial environmental thought, and political ecology.

Laurent Dubois is the John L. Nau III Bicentennial Professor in the History & Principles of Democracy and Director for Academic Affairs of the Democracy Initiative

A specialist on the history and...

Miguel serves as liaison to several departments and programs, working closely with faculty and students in Spanish, Italian and Portuguese, French, Latin American Studies, Jewish Studies, and German...

Nicole Ramsey completed her Ph.D. in the department of African American & African Diaspora Studies at the University of California Berkeley. Originally from Los Angeles, California, she holds an MA in...

I am currently a graduate student in the Architectural History Program at the Architecture School of the University of Virginia. My studies are focused on historical preservation and late nineteenth...

Samantha Lorraine Stephens is a PhD student in the English Department at the University of Virginia and a 2022-23 Praxis Fellow. 

Professor Pellón’s major fields of teaching and research are the contemporary novel in Latin America, literary theory, and translation.  He has published a book on the Cuban poet and novelist Lezama...

Catherine Doucette is a PhD student in Art & Architectural History studying under the guidance of Dr. Louis Nelson. Catherine studies the material cultures of the early modern circum-Atlantic world...

Carlos is a Ph.D. student in the Spanish Department. His research interests are in Caribbean cultures, Migration and Diaspora, Memory studies, Relationship of literature and art with cultural history...

MAR Sotelo-Padrón is a Ph.D. student in the Spanish Department. MAR's research interests include 20th and 21st century Latin American and Caribbean Literary and Cultural Studies; the relationship...

Winnie is a Ph.D. student in the Spanish Department. Winnie's research interests include technology and society studies, 20th - 21st Century anglophone, francophone and hispanophone Caribbean...

Ivana’s intellectual interests are at the intersection of Afro-Latin American Studies and Colonial Studies. With an eye towards narrative inquiry, they are drawn to exploring transatlantic themes of...

Nasrin Olla is an Assistant Professor of English and African & African American Studies. Nasrin completed her undergraduate degree at the University of Cape Town and her PhD in the Department of...

Seanna Viechweg is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of English. She is also a part of the university’s inaugural Caribbean Literatures, Arts, and Culture research cluster. Her research focuses on...

Arselyne Chery is a doctoral student in the English Department at the University of Virginia. Her research interests include modern and contemporary Black Atlantic/African Diasporic literature with a...

Cherrie Kwok’s dissertation focuses on a set of anti-imperial writers from Black America, the Caribbean, China, and India who drew from a late-Victorian movement called Decadence in their poetry and...

Kelsey Jaye is a doctoral stident in the Department of French and has research interests in philosophy of language, decolonial theory, postcolonial subjective identity, exile, displacement, religion...

Robert Fatton Jr. is the Julia A. Cooper Professor of Government and Foreign Affairs in the Department of Politics at the University of Virginia. He is the author of several books and a large number...

Yafrainy Familia is a Ph.D. student in the Spanish Department and has research interests in 20th and 21st century Caribbean and Latin American literatures, migration, diaspora and U.S. Latinx studies...

Eliud Encarnacion is a graduate student in the Spanish Deartment who graduated with a B.A. at La Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo. 

S. Max Edelson studies the history of British America and the Atlantic world. His research examines space, place, and culture in colonial North America and the Caribbean. His first book, Plantation...

Daniel Doncel Martín earned a B.A. in English Studies at Universidad de Salamanca (2018). His research interests include Latin American Literature and Culture, Spanish Literature and Culture, United...