My research looks at the emergence of the prison as a literary topos of the Caribbean’s twentieth century. I foreground different modes of carcerality—slavery, penal colonies, forced labor, correctional facilities, and political imprisonment—in order to investigate how the prison became a crucial literary theme for Caribbean writers attempting to theorize, narrativize, and represent the region. More broadly, I am also interested in politics of language, revolutionary history, and the afterlife of slavery as they manifest in the literary and cultural histories of the Francophone and Hispanophone Caribbean.
Workshops:
Workshop on Latin America and the Caribbean (2020-2021, 2021-2022)
Teaching Experience:
Introduction to Latinx Literature (CA, Winter 2021)
Introduction to Latin American Civilization III (TA, Spring 2022)