Sandra Jacobo
- Graduate Research Assistant
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Biography —
Alessandra (Sandra) Jacobo is a PhD candidate in the English department. She is currently dissertating about Afro-Caribbean Speculative Fiction written by women and femme persons. Some of her pedagogical goals are to teach and present her students with Caribbean literature; highlighting other[ed] experiences of blackness in the United States
Education —
Specialization
Caribbean literature, Black Feminism, Speculative Fiction, Critical Race Theory, Culture Studies, Literary Analysis, Religion Studies, Afro-diasporic religions, Haitian Creole (intermediate)
Selected Presentations —
“Celia Cruz: La Reina de Salsa y Afro-Latinidad” | The Unexpected Caribbean Symposium at the University of Kansas|Lawrence, Kansas | October 2018
“Anxieties of the Other: Gender Performativity and Displacement in Junot Diaz’s This is How You Lose Her.” | 2019 College Language Association (CLA) Convention at North Carolina Central University | Raleigh, North Carolina | April 2019
“Representations of Afro-Latinidad in the 20th and 21st Century” | Graduate Research Symposium at the University of Kansas | Lawrence, Kansas | April 2019
“The Spiritual Utility for Imagining Afro-Latinx Futures” | Planet Deep South at Clark University | Atlanta, Georgia | February 2020
“"Imagining an AfroLatinx Futurity with Daniel José Older’s Shadowshaper " | 2021 College Language Association (CLA) Convention at The University of Memphis | Memphis, Tennessee | Scheduled for April 2020 (Postponed to April 2021 due COVID-19 Pandemic)
“Healing Colonial Scars Through Afro-Caribbean Futurisms” | 2021 Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States (MELUS) Virtual Conference |April 8th-10th 2021
“Embodied Divergence and Other Modes of Resilience in An Unkindness of Ghosts" | 2022 Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States (MELUS) Conference |New Orleans, Louisiana| March 23rd-28th 2022
“Imperceptible Afrodiasporic Genders” | 2022 National Women’s Studies Association Conference | Minneapolis, Minnesota | November 10th-13th 2022
Grants & Other Funded Activity —
2022-2023 GRA for the Gunn Center (Spring 2023)
Memberships —
CLA, MELUS, NWSA