Assistant Professor of English
U of Texas, Austin
Biographical Sketch: Regina Marie Mills is Assistant Professor of Latinx and U.S. Multi-Ethnic Literature in the Department of English and core faculty in the Latina/o and Mexican American Studies program at Texas A&M University. Her research focuses on Latinx, AfroLatinx, and African diaspora literature and media, particularly life writing studies, refugee literature, and critical game studies. Her first book, Invisibility and Influence: A Literary History of AfroLatinidades, (University of Texas Press) will be publish Ed in June 2024 as part of the “Latinx: The Future Is Now” series. Her research is published or forthcoming in journals and collections such as Latino Studies, The Black Scholar, The Lion & the Unicorn, Oxford Bibliographies in Latino Studies, The Routledge Companion to Latinx Life Writing, and Latinx Literature and Critical Futurities, 1992-2020.
Her second book project, Gaming Latinidad: Latinx Narrative, Representation, and Experimentation in Games, looks to bring together scholarship in Latinx studies and critical game studies.