Yolanda Martinez-San Miguel

Professor
Department of Latino and Hispanic Caribbean Studies
School of Arts and Sciences

Key topics

Caribbean literature, colonial and postcolonial literature, cultural studies, Latino literature in the United States, colonial Latin American literature, Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, Latin American literature, migration and cultural representation

Biography

Yolanda Martínez-San Miguel is professor of Latino studies and comparative literature. Speaking topics include Caribbean literature, cultural representations of migration, migration and sexuality, women's literature in Latin America and the Caribbean, Latin American literature from the 17th century, and Puerto Rican literature.

She is the author of "Saberes americanos: subalternidad y epistemología en los escritos de Sor Juana" (1999), "Caribe Two Ways: cultura de la migración en el Caribe insular hispánico" (2003) and "From Lack to Excess: 'Minor' Readings of Colonial Latin American Literature" (2008). She is working on her fourth book entitled "Coloniality of Diasporas: Rethinking Intra-Colonial Migrations in a Pan-Caribbean Context."

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