Sarah Soanirina Ohmer

Polyglot, Black Feminist, womanist, literary critic focusing on trauma, healing, and spirituality, fluent in French Spanish Portuguese and English.

Assistant Professor of Latin American and Latino Studies, African American Studies, and Women's Studies at Lehman College in the Bronx, NY, and editorial board member of Women's Studies Quarterly journal, Ohmer’s research focuses on the intersection of gender, race, class and trauma in literature by Black Women from Cuba&Brazil.

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Contact: Lehman College Office Phone: 718-960-6757 · sarah.ohmer@lehman.cuny.edu
Website: http://www.lehman.edu/academics/arts-humanities/latin-puerto-rican-studies/faculty-ohmer.php
Quick Link: http://cuny.is/sarahsoanirinaohmer

…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 fellowships from Fulbright, the CUNY Graduate Center for Politics, Culture and Place, FLAS, and internal grants at U Pittsburgh, U Indianapolis, and CUNY. I published articles (available below) in the 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.