Assistant Professor

Spanish & Portuguese

Dr. Ángela Castro is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese. Her research focuses on predominant representations of the twentieth-century Afro-Caribbean female body through comparative analysis. She uses the concept of the palimpsest as a means of reconfiguring the Afro-Caribbean female body as a site of empowerment born within the struggles of postcolonial and neocolonial history. She is the cofounder of “Aproximaciones Afrolatinoamericanas” a virtual space that questions and examines Afro-Latin American history, literature, and art. She’s currently working on an analysis of necropolitics in the work of Afro-Colombian writer Arnoldo Palacios and Pilar Quintana.

 

Publications

 

Peer Review Articles & Edited Volumes:

- The Palimpsestic Afro-Panamanian Woman in Melanie Taylor Herrera’s Camino a Mariato. Link

- The Haitian and Dominican Resistance: A Study of the Symptom in Edwidge Danticat's Work The Farming of Bones. Link

- Power-In-Passivity: A Study of The Body and the Female Recognition in Jamaica Kincaid's Lucy.” Link

 

Activities & Interests

The Palimpsest
Afro-Caribbean & Latin American Female Writing
Diaspora Studies