Hemispheric Caribbean Studies Faculty

Donette Francis

Assoc. Professor
Director for the Center for Global Black Studies

d.francis@miami.edu

(305) 284-5608
Log in to view address
Donette Francis is director for the Center for Global Black Studies and past director the American Studies Program at the University of Miami. An Associate Professor of English and founding member of the Hemispheric Caribbean Studies Collective, her research and writing investigate place, aesthetics and cultural politics in the African...
Read More >

Lillian Manzor

Professor
Faculty Director of UParis

lmanzor@miami.edu

(305) 284-5585
Log in to view address
Read More >

Yolanda M. Martinez-San Miguel, Ph.D.

Professor

ymm34@miami.edu

(305) 284-5585
Log in to view address
Yolanda Martínez-San Miguel specializes in colonial, postcolonial Latin American, and Caribbean literature. She teaches courses on critical theory, comparative coloniality, gender and sexuality studies, and Latinx, Latin American, and Caribbean studies. She has taught at Princeton University (1997-2000), Rutgers, the State University of...
Read More >

Patricia J. Saunders

Professor
DIRECTOR OF GRADUATE STUDIES
Hemispheric Caribbean Studies Faculty Lead - UMIA

psaunders@miami.edu

(305) 284-3829
Log in to view address
Prof. Saunders is an associate professor of English at the University of Miami and Hemispheric Caribbean Studies Faculty Lead at the Miami Insitutite for the Advanced Study of the Americas. Her research and scholarship focus largely on the relationship between sexual identity and national identity in Caribbean literature and popular culture. Her...
Read More >

Beatrice Colastin Skokan

Librarian Associate Professor

bskokan@miami.edu

(305) 284-3580
Log in to view address
Béatrice Colastin Skokan joined the faculty in 2009 and serves as the Head of Manuscripts and Archives Management. She is responsible  for the management and assessment of manuscripts and archival processing for collections in all formats accross the distinctive collections within the UM Libraries. As Curator of Caribbean...
Read More >
Top