EDUCATION
Ph.D. | 2024 | Harvard University
Program of study: Romance Languages and Literatures; Latinx and Spanish Track
Dissertation: “Perverse Freedoms: Genealogies of Black Resistance in Hispaniola”
Committee: Lorgia García-Peña, Mayra Rivera, Katerina González Seligmann
Master of Arts | 2021 | Harvard University
Program of study: Romance Languages and Literatures; Latinx and Spanish Track
Bachelor of Arts | May 2017 | Emerson College
Program of study: Writing, Literature and Publishing
RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS
Caribbean philosophy, Black and transnational feminisms, Caribbean perspectives on modernity and modernization, Afro-Caribbean spirituality, decolonial studies, diaspora studies, settler colonialism, and new approaches to archives.
FELLOWSHIPS AND GRANTS
2024 Princeton University Presidential Postdoctoral Research Fellowship
2022 David Rockefeller Center Summer Research Grant
2022 The Denie S. Weil Teaching Fellowship in Religious Ethics
2021 Graduate Society Summer Predissertation Fellowship
2020 Graduate Student Council January mini-course Grant
2019 Afro-Latin American Research Institute at The Hutchins Center Short-Term Field Research Grant
2017 Massachusetts Promise Fellowship
2016 Emerson College Enhancement Fund Award
2015 Emerson College Grant
PUBLICATIONS
Academic Articles
2020 Co-authored with Camara Brown and Eun-Jin Keish Kim, “Three essays towards care in and beyond academia,” Kalfou: A Journal of
Comparative and Relational Ethnic Studies, Vol. 7, Iss. 2: 255-270
Literary Publications
2023 “La Sabina,” “Deshonra,” “Incendio,” “Godiva,” Microrelatos, Gacela del Ático. Web. Available on gaceladelatico.com
2019 Editor: Writers Without Margins: A Journal of Poetry and Prose, Volume IV: The Human/Nature Edition. Boston.
2018 Editor: Writers Without Margins: A Journal of Poetry and Prose, Volume III: The Lost and Found Editions. Boston.
2017 “El Simulacro.” XXIV Concurso De Cuentos De Radio Santa María: Cuentos Ganadores. Santiago de los Caballeros: Impresora Teόfilo.
2016 “El Arte de la Pesca.” XXIII Concurso De Cuentos De Radio Santa María: Cuentos Ganadores. Santiago de los Caballeros: Impresora Teόfilo.
2014 “El Cazador de Ciguapas.” La Ciguapa. Santo Domingo: Ediciones CP, 2014. 44-77.
Public Scholarship
2025 “Hope as a Reading Practice,” The Commons, Association For Public Religion And Intellectual Life.
2023 Ongoing: “Notas desde la academia,” column, Hispanic Image Magazine
2018 “La Importancia de Hacer Presencia,” Revista de la Semana Cultural y Festival de Boston.
2017 “Revisionaries: A transformative writing experience,” co-authored with Cheryl Buchanan, Emerson College Common Ground. Blog.
WORKS IN PROGRESS
Academic Articles
“Ogoun Feray’s drums: Jacques Roumain’s shadows in the marvelous real” (in preparation).
“No un pesimista: José Ramón López as a Latin American possitivist” (in preparation).
“Encubriendo the colonial wounds of Dominicanidad: Three Black-feminist visual interventions” (in preparation).
TALKS, READINGS, AND CONFERENCES
Invited Lectures
2024 “A Decolonial History of the Dominican Republic,” Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
2019 “Rita and Alejo: The African Diaspora in El reino de este mundo and La mucama de Omicunlé,” Emerson College, Boston, MA
Talks
2024 “Against Coloniality: Embodied Rebellions in Santo Domingo,” Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
2023 “Urban Marroonage at the Ozama River: A place-based archival methodology,” Graduate Student Writing Workshop on Afro-Latin
American Studies, Afro-Latin American Research Institute at the Hutchins Center, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
2023 “De Aviesa Condición: Urban Marroonage at the Ozama River,” Writing, Literature and Publishing Scholar Series, Emerson College,
Boston, MA
2020 Keynote speaker: “Ethnic Studies as Homemaking,” Harvard Latinx Convocation 2020, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
2019 “Mediación y Tiempo en El reino de este mundo,” Club de Profesores de La Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo, Distrito Nacional,
Dominican Republic
2019 Reading the Self as an Act of Resistance,” Women of Color Symposium, Harvard School of Education, Cambridge, MA
2019 “Reading the Mother as Healing” Empowered Women of Color, Boston, MA
2016 “La literatura como motor de enriquecimiento emocional,” Centro Cultural Perelló, Baní, Dominican Republic
Conference Presentations
2024 “Afro-rebeliones: visualidad y negritud en República Dominicana,” Third Continental Conference on Afro-Latin American Studies 2024,
Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil
2023 Roundtable moderator: “Epistemologías de la relación: afro políticas y feminismos decoloniales,” Cumbre Internacional de
Afrodescendencia, Universidad de Puerto Rico, Río Piedras, Puerto Rico
2021 Respondent: “El tema del silenciamiento en Bordes de la domicanidad de Lorgia García-Peña,” VIII Seminario de Hermenéutica de
Santo Domingo: Injusticia Hermenéutica: a los 500 años de la primera rebelión cimarrona
2019 “José Ramón López como un pensador positivista,” VII Seminario de Hermenéutica de Santo Domingo:“El Retorno de las Yolas: Pensar
con la diáspora dominicana,” Santo Domingo, Republica Dominicana
Literary Readings
2017 “El Arte de La Pesca,” II Feria Latinoamericana del Libro, Casa Cultural Dominicana de Worcester, Worcester, MA
2016 “El Cepillo,” Festival de Arte Solo Para Locos, Lehman College, New York, New york
ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE AND TEACHING
EMERSON COLLEGE
Affiliated Faculty
Marlboro Institute for Liberal Arts & Interdisciplinary Studies, Emerson College, Boston, MA
courses
2023 (spring) HS 103-02 - Honors Writing Symposium
2023 (spring) HS 102-02 - “Literature and Culture of the Americas”
2022 (fall) HS 101-02 - “Literature and Culture of the Americas”
HARVARD UNIVERSITY
Instructor
Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
courses
2020-2021 Spanish 11
Graduate Student Council Winter Mini-Course
courses
2021 “The Self as narrative resistance: Black and Afro-descendant writing in practice.”
Committee on Degrees in Folklore & Mythology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
courses
2023 FM 99B - Junior Tutorial
2022 FM 99A - Junior Tutorial
2021 FM 98B - Sophomore Tutorial
2021 FM 96R - Senior Tutorial
Teaching Assistant
Harvard Divinity School, Cambridge, MA
2022 (spring) HDS 2432 - “Coloniality, Race and Catastrophe” - Professor Mayra Rivera
Guest Lecture: “The Ozama River in Elizabeth DeLoughrey’s Allegories of the Anthropocene”
2020 (fall) HDS 2432 - “Coloniality, Race and Catastrophe” - Professor Mayra Rivera
Guest Lecture: “Ecological Contours: Reading between the lines of history”
The Committee on Ethnicity, Migration, Rights, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
2021 (fall) EMR 133 - “Power, Knowledge, and Identity: Critical Approaches to Race and Ethnicity” - Professor Eleanor Craig
Guest Lecture: “A Science of the Surface”
2021 (spring) EMR 142 - “Introduction to Latinx Studies” - Professor Marcelo Garzo Montalvo
Guest Lectures: “The Idea of JLo” and “Joiry Miraya’s ‘Encubrimiento’”
Committee on Degrees in Folklore & Mythology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
2021 (fall) FM 133 - Supernatural Storytelling: Ghost-lore, Occult Legends, and the Politics of the Paranormal - Professor Lowell Brower
COMMUNITY TEACHING AND FACILITATION
Creative Writing Workshops
2024 (Spring). “New Stories, New Selves: An Expressive Writing Workshop,” Boston Public Library, Jamaica Plain, MA
2023 (summer) “Quick Friends: A Flash Fiction workshop,” Step by Step, Brookline, MA
2023 (summer) “The Self as Narrative Resistance: Black and Afro-descendant Writing in Practice,” Boston Public Library, Jamaica Plain, MA
2017-2019 “The Underground Writer’s Collective,” Bridge Over Troubled Waters, Boston, MA
2015-2017 Writers Group - Writers Without Margins, Center For Change, Dorchester, MA
Advising
Committee on Ethnicity, Migration, Rights, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA Ethnicity,
2020-ongoing Undergraduate thesis mentor
Research
2023 Research assistant - Book project, title TBD, Katerina Gonzalez Seligmann, Cambridge, MA
2023 Research assistant - “Archipelagos,” Mayra Rivera, Cambridge, MA
2021 Research assistant - Writing the Caribbean in Magazine Time, Katerina Gonzalez Seligmann, Cambridge, MA
2020 Research assistant - Translating Blackness, Lorgia García-Peña, Cambridge, MA
2020 Research assistant - “Caribbean Catastrophes” Mayra Rivera, Cambridge, MA
2019 Research assistant - Dominican Crossroads, Christina Davidson, Cambridge, MA
2014-2015 Research assistant – Fight Like a Girl: 50 Feminists Who Changed the World, Laura Barcella, remote
Service
Harvard University
2025 Coordinator - “Fugitivities and Confluences” Working Group, supported by the Princeton University Humanities Council
2023 Panelist - Thriving at Harvard: A student perspective, BIPOC Connections
2021-2023 Coordinator - Latinx Studies Working Group, Committee on Ethnicity, Migration, Rights
2021 Graduate student coordinator - The Annual Raimundo Lida Memorial Lecture
2019-2020 Intern - Committee on Ethnicity, Migration, Rights
2019 Graduate student coordinator - Global Dominicanidades: New Approaches to Dominican Studies in 21st Century Pre-LASA
Conference
Other Service
2020 OneGoal Fellow Mentor, UMass Boston, Boston, MA
2016-2017 Spanish translator and interpreter, Boston Housing Authority, Boston, MA
2016 Fiction reader - Issue 9 #Activism, Words Apart Magazine, Emerson College, Boston, MA
OTHER EDUCATION AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2021 Decolonizing Knowledge and Power: Postcolonial Studies, Decolonial Horizons, Center of Study and Investigation for Decolonial
Dialogues
2021 Diplomado Virtual de Escritura Creativa para Escritoras Caribeñas, Instituto Superior Bonó
2019 Seminario Descolonizar las Ciencias Sociales, Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales and Instituto Superior Bonó,
Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
2019 Piel Negra, Máscaras Blancas: Leer a Fanon hoy, Instituto Superior Bonó, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
2017-2018 Academic Enrichment Fellow at Hyde Square Task Force - AmeriCorps Massachusetts Promise Fellowship, Boston, MA
2012-2014 TV presenter – fashion, culture, and lifestyle segments producer and writer, Sin Rodeos TV Show, Telemundo New England
AWARDS AND APPOINTMENTS
2023 League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) of Boston Joven Ejemplar Award
2017 El Mundo Boston Latino 30 under 30 honoree
2017 Gold Key Honor Society
2016 Boston City Hall Award for Leadership and Academic Excellence within the Dominican Community
2016 Boston City Council Award for Dedication to the Dominican Community
2016 Comité Organizador del Festival Dominicano award for Academic Excellence
2014 Commonwealth Honors Program
2014 Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
Latin American Studies Association (LASA) D.R.-Haiti Section
Dominican Studies Association
Caribbean Philosophical Association
Caribbean Studies Association
American Studies Association
LANGUAGES
Native Spanish speaker, English, and reading ability in French and Italian