Hemispheric Caribbean Studies Faculty

Donette Francis

Assoc. Professor
Director for the Center for Global Black Studies

(305) 284-5608
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...

Lillian Manzor

Professor
Faculty Director of UParis

(305) 284-5585

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

Professor

(305) 284-5585
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...

Patricia J. Saunders

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

(305) 284-3829
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...

Beatrice Colastin Skokan

Librarian Professor

(305) 284-3580
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...

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