Biography

Dr. Monica Styles completed her PhD in Latin American literature in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is currently working on a book manuscript titled Recuperating Black Perspectives from the Early Modern Caribbean under contract at Vanderbilt University Press in which she seeks to recovering and interpreting the contributions of people of African descent to early modern literary culture by reading against the canonical void. She theorizes Afro-Intertextuality to recenter Afro-descendant influenced cultural production by bringing together Afro-centrism and intertextuality to reconstruct Black subalternity depicted in speech acts, writing and corporeality. Her work has been published in peer-reviewed journals such as Hispania and The Afro-Hispanic Review. She teaches classes in Spanish language and in Latin American literary studies from the colonial period to the present.