Yomaira Catherine Figueroa, Graduate Student

Email: yomairaf@berkeley.edu

As a first generation Afro-Boricua Nuyorican raised between the island and New Jersey/New York, I have a personal interest in Caribbean diasporas, especially the aesthetic and political/intellectual productions of the first and second generations.

Education

M.A. (Ethnic Studies), University of California, Berkeley; B.A. (English Literature, Women & Gender Studies, Latino Hispanic Caribbean Studies), Rutgers University, Douglass College

Research interests

Literature, Diaspora, Language, Art, Decolonial Feminisms