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ABOUT ME

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My story began in the multilingual, mini-metropolis that is Hialeah, Florida. At age 10, I moved to Ponce, Puerto Rico, where I learned to live in Spanish. A couple of years later, I moved back to Miami, where I had to relearn to live in English and Spanish. My migrations from the Atlantic Ocean to the Caribbean Sea mimic my linguistic fluctuations between English and Spanish.

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My experiences with displacement and migrations inspired me to study writers of the Francophone Caribbean, who struggled to tell their own stories of movement, diaspora, and exile. The postcolonial tradition of rewriting canonical British texts was the focus of my MA thesis.

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Currently, I’m a PhD student of Literary and Cultural Studies and Rhetoric and Composition at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia. I’m also a college composition instructor at ODU and Tidewater Community College.
 

My current research interests lie within the politics of translation, archival violence, and communications of nostalgia, exile, diaspora, and trauma within literatures of the Hispanophone Caribbean.

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Explore this site to find out more about my work.

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