Latin America

David Kazanjian

Professor of English and Comparative Literature Graduate Chair, Program in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory; Research Resident, Vartan Gregorian Center for Research in the Humanities, New York Public Library, 2025; Visiting Scholar, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, 2026kazanjia@english.upenn.eduWebsite

Fields of Study: Historiography and Historical Writing, Philosophical Texts & Intellectual History, Africa & the Caribbean, Diaspora, Latin America, Middle East/North Africa, US, C19, Long Eighteenth Century, Deconstruction, Formalism/ Structuralism, Gender Studies, Women’s Studies, Queer Theory, Trans Theory, Marxism, Post-colonial, Psychoanalysis, Race and Empire, Rhetoric, Hermeneutics, Trauma

Rose Poku

Ph.D. Candidate rosepoku@sas.upenn.edu

Fields of Study: Novel, Poetry/ Poetics, Africa & the Caribbean, Diaspora, Latin America, US, Deconstruction, Gender Studies, Women’s Studies, Queer Theory, Trans Theory, Linguistic Theories and Culture, Post-colonial, Race and Empire, Translation

Jennifer Ponce de León

Associate Professor of English poncej@english.upenn.eduWebsite

Fields of Study: Art/ Media, Drama, Film, Novel, Poetry/ Poetics, Short Story, Latin America, US, C20, including Modernism, C21/ Contemporary, Marxism, Post-colonial, Race and Empire, Spatial Theory

Liz Rose

Ph.D. Candidate lizrose@sas.upenn.edu

Fields of Study: Africa & the Caribbean, Diaspora, Latin America, US, C21/ Contemporary, Digital Humanities, Gender Studies, Women’s Studies, Queer Theory, Trans Theory, Race and Empire, Translation