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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...