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.