Research Interests
Her research examines the construction of race in the Iberian world beginning in the 16th century and traces how these frameworks have been extended and reimagined through various artistic forms, particularly in literature and visual culture. She focuses on how these racial logics persist in late 19th- and early 20th-century Cuban, Puerto Rican, and Brazilian literatures, particularly in their treatment of Black subjectivity and the shift from enslavement to legal freedom. Her work also engages with Caribbean intellectual movements such as Négritude and its Hispanic and anglophone counterparts, exploring how they confront and reinterpret inherited narratives of race and identity.
Fellowships, Gifts, and Supported Research
Summer Research Fellowship for Research on Women or Girls of Color ·
June 1, 2025
- August 31, 2025
Awarded by: The Duke Graduate School
· $10,000.00
The Duke Graduate School is offering a summer research fellowship for a graduate student in public policy, social sciences, or the humanities who is doing research on women or girls of color. Applicants whose research is focused on public data, intersectional histories, contemporary issues, events and narratives, or interpretive cultural studies in humanities and the arts about women or girls of color are encouraged to apply. The fellowship will pay a stipend of $10,000 for the period from June 1 to August 31, plus summer tuition and health fee.
Dean's Graduate Fellowship ·
2022
Awarded by: The Graduate School
The Dean’s Graduate Fellowships are provided to students who—by reason of their background, culture, socioeconomic status, race, ethnicity, work, and life experiences—contribute to a fuller representation of perspectives within the academic life of the University. The Graduate School’s commitment to promoting and benefiting from diversity leads it to encourage nominations of students who are black/African American, American Indian/Alaskan Native, and Hispanic/Latino Americans. All nominees must be US citizens.