Lisa Smith Discovery Associate Professor of Spanish
Charlotte Rogers specializes in twentieth- and twenty-first-century Latin America and the Caribbean, with a comparative focus on representations of the tropics in literature and culture. She is the...
Assistant Director of the Furious Flower Poetry Center (JMU)
Trinidadian-American poet, Lauren Alleyne,is a Ph.D candidate in English and the award-winning author of Difficult Fruit (Peepal Tree, 2014), and Honeyfish (New Issues Press, 2018) with areas of...
Postdoctoral Fellow in the College of Arts and Sciences
Roberto I. Armengol is a postdoctoral fellow in the College of Arts and Sciences and a sociocultural anthropologist with extensive field experience in urban Cuba. His research looks at how the...
Syrine Ben Amor is a doctoral student in the Department of French who studies modern poetry and fiction, visual arts, photography and film. She holds an M.A. from the University of Manouba.
Assistant Professor of English and American Studies
Carmen Lamas is an assistant professor of English and American Studies, exploring hemispheric American and Latinx literary cultures from the 19th century to the present.
Associate Professor of Latin American Cultural Studies
Anne Garland Mahler is an associate professor of Latin American cultural studies in the Department of Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese. She is broadly interested in race and social movements in the...
Assistant Professor of Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies
Matthew Chin investigates the histories of racial and sexual formation in the anglophone Caribbean. He is currently working on a book manuscript that examines how queerness materializes in key...
PhD Student in the Department of Spanish, Italian & Portuguese
Manuel Acevedo-Reyes is a PhD Student at the University of Virginia with research interested in Caribbean Literature and Culture, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Queer Studies, Latinx Literature and...
Sebastian Corrales is a Ph.D. student in the English Department. His research interests include U.S. Latinx literature and contemporary Transamerican Latinidad.
Ph.D. Student in the Department of Spanish, Italian & Portuguese
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...
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...
PhD Student in the Department of Spanish, Italian & Portuguese
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...
Professor of Government and Foreign Affairs in the Department of Politics
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...
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...
Elizabeth Arendall Tilney and Schuyler Merritt Tilney Jefferson Fellow
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...
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...
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...
Assistant Professor of English and African & African American Studies
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...
PhD Student in the Department of Spanish, Italian & Portuguese
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...
