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Meleena Gil

Former
English and Comparative Literature

Meleena (they/them) is a first-generation US-American and PhD in English and Comparative Literature from UNC-Chapel Hill. Meleena has vested interests in queer theory and gender studies, environmental humanities, and disability studies. Drawing from a reproductive justice framework, Meleena specializes in the representations of children in contemporary Latinx literature. They graduated in 2025 and secured a tenure-track position at Elon University!

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