• Black Women and LGBTQ+ in Cali, Colombia
• Black Pacific Studies
• Afro-Latin American and Afro-Latinx literary and cultural studies 
• Black Feminisms and Womanisms
• African Diaspora Gender and Sexuality in Latin America and the Caribbean
• Critical Theory
• Trauma, Memory, and Spirituality
  
• Black Women and Documentary Film
• Afro-Brazilian Hip Hop, Dance, Poetry and Spoken Word

1. ” ‘In the beginning was Body Language’ Clowning and Krump as Spiritual Healing and Resistance 

2. “Jenyffer Nascimento’s Epic Poetry of Black Female Empowerment Jenyffer Nascimento: a Poesia Épica de Empoderamento da Mulher Negra

3. “Cuban Underground Hip Hop: Black Thoughts, Black Revolution, Black Modernity by Tanya Saunders”

4. “Afro-Brazilian Women’s Anti-Naming as Recovery From Trauma in Conceição Evaristo’s ‘Eu-Mulher’ and Ponciá Vicencio”

5. “Gloria E. Anzaldúa’s Decolonizing Ritual de Conocimiento”

NEW PUBLICATIONS AVAILABLE FOR DOWNLOAD

2021.
Introduction: From Solidão, to Isolation, to Solidão-rity. Luciane Ramos Silva, Tanya L. Saunders, and Sarah Soanirina Ohmer

2019. 

New Publications Available for Purchase

…in comparison with US African American, Afro-Latinx and Latinx communities. My interdisciplinary work includes trauma studies, critical ethnic studies, literary analysis and cultural studies. I am a past recipient of 2 Fulbright Fellowships (2015 Brazil & 2021 Colombia), and fellowships from the CUNY Graduate Center for Politics, Culture and Place, the Federal Grant for Foreign Language Area Studies (FLAS – Portuguese), and internal grants of up to $15,000 U Pittsburgh, U Indianapolis, and CUNY. I recently co-edited a Special Issue for Women’s Studies Quarterly, titled Solidão, on Black Feminisms in Brazil (introduction available in the link on this website), and published articles (available on this site) in the Journal of International Women’s Studies, PALARA, Zora Neale Hurston Forum, Confluencia, and InterFACES. I first taught as an Instructor and Assistant Professor of Modern Languages at the University of Indianapolis, where I coordinated the Spanish program and taught undergraduate and graduate courses.

I have a post-doctoral certificate in History from the University of São Paulo, a doctorate from University of Pittsburgh in Hispanic Languages and Literature (2012), a master’s degree from University of Houston’s Modern Languages Department, and a bachelor’s degree from the University of Houston in Spanish and English Linguistics. 

Event Organizer of “Black Cuir Revolutions: Reflections on Brazil, Colombia, Cuba, and the Bronx featuring Ochy Curiel, Tanya Saunders, Grisel Y. Acosta and Juliana Costa.