People

Joshua Cody Ward (he/him) specializes in Literature of the American South and the Appalachian South, with interest in both African American Literature and Chicanx literature, especially across the 20th century. He is a Digital Content Coordinator for the Latina/o Studies Program, a … Read more

Victoria Valle is a Digital Content Coordinator for the Latina/o Studies Program. Her interests include the Digital Humanities, Speculative Fiction, and Latina/o literature, specifically Mexican-American literature and authors from the late 19th to the early 20th centuries. She recently participated … Read more

Afro-Caribbean-American writer Dailihana Alfonseca completed her master’s in Health Humanities in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at UNC-Chapel Hill in 2024. Her concentration in Literature, Medicine, and Culture continues to amplify marginalized perspectives through her writing and research … Read more

Izzy Howard (they/them) researches ambiguous and deceptive language in Medieval literature and how this ‘promiscuity’ of meaning can be read as queer. Their readings focus on the textual body and its relation to the physical body: how the textual corpus … Read more

A third-generation Cuban American, Maya J. Berry is a dancer, performance scholar, and social anthropologist. She brings a Black feminist approach to her research on race, gender, and the Black political imagination in Havana, Cuba. Her first book, tentatively titled … Read more

My research areas include all things Latinx, including Chicanx and Latinx and cultural production, Hispanic transnational literatures, Caribbean historical fiction, Visual Rhetorics, and Testimonio. Generally, I am interested in what and why: what representations of Latin@ experience look like and … Read more

Gabriela Valdivia is a professor in the Department of Geography at UNC-Chapel Hill and Assistant Dean at Honors Carolina.    Gabriela is a feminist political ecologist examining the relationship between resources and socio-environmental inequities. Her research and teaching focus on how … Read more

Nicole Berland (she/they) graduated from the Department of English and Comparative Literature at Chapel Hill in 2023, where she completed a dissertation on narrative seriality in contemporary science fiction television. She is especially passionate about her teaching, for which she has … Read more

Anna Broadwell-Gulde (she/her) is a PhD candidate and teaching fellow in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her research examines the influence of portraiture—painting and photographic—on modernist innovations in representations of … Read more

My research focuses on environmental justice in the Anthropocene. I am interested in the convergences in the fields of ecocriticism, post-colonial theory and global socioeconomics, to examine how the effects of climate change, displacement, toxic and electronic waste, and resource … Read more