Diaspora & Transatlantic Studies

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Diaspora and Transatlantic Studies examine and compare cultural production, movements, and criticism using theoretical frameworks that confront the colonial legacies of empire, exploitation, and genocide.  Research in the department investigates borders, race, ethnicity, class, human rights, national and transnational identities, and the plurality of intersecting languages and artistic practices in the Caribbean, Africa, the Americas, and Europe with focuses on Afro-Latin American, Latinx Studies, Indigenous Studies, and Women's Studies. 

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Personnel

Associate Professor

Lesley Feracho

Associate Professor of Spanish

Dr. Feracho specializes in contemporary Latin American narrative and in particular women's narrative of the Caribbean, as well as Afro-Latin American narrative and poetry. Her current research involves cross-cultural literary texts (in both narrative and poetry) of women writers of African descent from the Americas (both Spanish-speaking and…

R Gabara

Rachel Gabara

Associate Professor of French

Twentieth and twenty-first century literature, film, and theory in French; African cinema; documentary film; postcolonial studies.

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Sharina Maillo Pozo

Assistant Professor of Spanish/Latinx Studies

My research interests are interdisciplinary with a common focus on the relationship between literature and popular music, gender, and performance studies in three closely related areas: Latinx, Latin American & Caribbean, and Dominican Studies. My first line of research examines the presence of popular music in contemporary Latinx and…

Cecília Paiva Ximenes Rodrigues

Associate Professor of Portuguese

Contemporary Brazilian Literature, prose fiction of the 21st century, narratives of displacement, and the construction of Brazilian national identities.

Emily Sahakian

Emily Sahakian

Associate Professor of French

French and Francophone literatures and culture, theatre studies and community-based theatre, Francophone Caribbean women writers.

Professor Elizabeth Wright

Elizabeth Wright

Distinguished Research Professor, Spanish Literature

Elizabeth R. Wright (Ph.D., Spanish literature, Johns Hopkins University, 1998).  See below for books, links to selected articles, and a list of grants/awards.

Elizabeth Wright studies and teaches about early modern Spain in the context of imperial expansion. She is also editor of the Bulletin of the Comediantes, the international…

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