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 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 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...
Marlene Daut, Professor of American Studies and African American and African Studies, specializes in early Caribbean, 19th-century African American, and early modern French colonial literary and...
Ph.D. student in the Department of Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese
Thallya Diaz, a Ph.D. student in the Department of Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese. Her research interests include Caribbean literary and cultural studies with an emphasis on race, medicine, and...
PhD 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...
