Graduate Student
Research Interests
environmental humanities; critical ethnic studies; gender studies; Black studies; contemporary poetry; hybrid essays; science fiction; postcolonial ecologies; the U.S. SouthDissertation working title
"The Idea of Progress at Krotz Springs: Historical Narrative at the Edge of Climate Change"
Graduate Student
Research Interests
Latin American, Caribbean, and U.S. Latinx contemporary fictions; border culture literature of the Americas; transnational and hemispheric Latin American and U.S. Latinx popular culture; race, ethnicity, social mobility, and identity in America(s) fiction; rhetoric and language in diasporic literature of the Americas; imperialism and language; multilingual literary expressions and experiences; narco-culture; narco-literature as (post)NAFTA expression(s); Caribbean detective fiction; America(n)(s) telenovelas and webnovelas; transmedia and identity expressions in the Americas; latinidad and media.Dissertation working title
“Negotiating a Hemispheric Latinidad: Latin American Representation of Latinos/as in the U.S.”
Graduate Student
Research Interests
Asian American studies; Filipino studies; critical ethnic studies; U.S. imperialism; transnational and women of color feminisms; race, education, and migrationDissertation working title
“Filipino Entrapment: Re/Dis/Membering Empire”
Graduate Student
Research Interests
Crossing Boundaries: Gender and Racial Bending in Three Contemporary Ethnic American Novels
Graduate Student
Research Interests
cinema studies; black feminisms; global black diasporas; women's filmmaking; experimental cinemas; curating and exhibition; Latin American and Caribbean studies; African studiesDissertation working title
“Imperfect Independence: Black Women Experimental Filmmakers”
Graduate Student
Research Interests
indigeneity and settler colonialism; Mexico/U.S. borderlands; intersections of race, gender, sexuality, and class; masculinity; nationalism; history; Native American and Indigenous studies; Chicanx and Latinx studies; queer of color critiqueDissertation working title
“Indigenous Intimacies: Native Americans and Mexican Americans since 1848”
Graduate Student
Dissertation working title
“Feeling Human: Aesthetic Experience and Posthuman Evasions of Identity”
Graduate Student
Dissertation working title
“Real American Victims”
The College of Arts