Spanish Language and Literatures
Ph.D.
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
2021
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Biography
Marcelo Rene Gomes Perez is a Lecturer of Spanish and Portuguese at Howard University. His research focus is on how the literature produced between the late 20th and the 21st centuries in the Hispanic and Francophone Caribbean islands have exposed, criticized, and transgressed racial, social, and cultural hierarchies inherited from the colonial rule through a decolonial perspective. His research interests are Caribbean Literatures, Caribbean Cultural Studies, Caribbean Diaspora, Caribbean History, Postcolonial studies, Decolonial studies, Latin American Literatures, Latina American, and Latin American History.
Education & Expertise
Education
Literature Studies
M.A.
Universidade Federal de Viçosa
2017
Language and Literature Studies in Portuguese and English
B.A.
Universidade Federal de Viçosa
2015
Expertise
Caribbean Literatures and Cultural Studies
Latin American Literatures and Cultural Studies
Decolonial Studies
Postcolonial Studies
Comparative Studies
Research
Research
Specialty
Centered in contemporary Caribbean Studies across languages and disciplines, my research draws upon Latin American and Francophone Literatures, Comparative Literature, Cultural Studies and Decolonial Studies.Related Articles
A minority within a minority: Dialectal accommodation by Speakers of Central American varieties of Spanish in Nebraska
We explore self-reported use of the second-person singular pronoun vos by a group of speakers of Central American Spanish in the state of Nebraska. Our analysis focuses on the pronoun vos because it is a feature absent from the dialects of Spanish spoken by the majority of Latinx Nebraskans, and because its use and intergenerational transmission are closely inosculated with social meaning.
Spanish in Context
2025-01-28 | Journal article
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1075/sic.21018.vel
Contributors: Marcelo Rene Gomes Perez; Isabel Velázquez
Beyond the insularity of words: Transmutations of the Caribbean Storyteller in Chamoiseau’s Solibo Magnificent and Cabrera’s Los Compadres
This essay examines how the role of the contemporary Caribbean storyteller is perceived and depicted in Martinican writer Patrick Chamoiseau’s Solibo Magnificent and in Cuban writer Lydia Cabrera’s short story “Los Compadres” from the collection Cuentos Negros de Cuba.
Caribbean Studies
2022-07-01 | Journal Article
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/crb.2022.a901614