Associate Professor of Spanish
U of Georgia
Biographical Sketch: Lesley Feracho is an Associate Professor in the Department of Romance Languages and is the Associate Director of the Institute of African-American Studies. She specializes in contemporary Latin American and Hispanophone Caribbean women’s narrative and popular culture in the 20th and 21st centuries. Dr. Feracho’s research examines transnational, cross-cultural dialogues of Afro-descendent women writers in Hispanophone and Lusophone America. She is a 2019-2020 Wilson Fellow and her current project examines theoretical, literary and cultural exchanges between African American and Black Brazilian women from the 1970s to the present. She has published on contemporary Caribbean and Latin American women’s poetry, narrative and music in journals such as Callaloo, Hispania, South Atlantic Review and published her book, Linking the Americas:Race, Hybrid Discourses and the Reformulation of Feminine Identity, with SUNY Press in 2005.