Sebastian Corrales is a Ph.D. student in the English Department. His research interests include U.S. Latinx literature and contemporary Transamerican Latinidad.
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...
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...
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 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.
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.
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...
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...
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...
