- Africa & the Caribbean
- Diaspora
- Latin America
- US
- C21/ Contemporary
- Digital Humanities
- Gender Studies, Women’s Studies, Queer Theory, Trans Theory
- Race and Empire
- Translation
Liz researches the intersections of trans theory and Black feminist theory in contemporary lyric writing, performance, autobiography, and oral histories across the Americas. Their writing and research spans criticism, literary translation, and experimental archival methods to illuminate critical genealogies of Black trans feminist and abolitionist thought.
Liz's broader investments as a scholar include public-facing projects related to translation, oral history, and reparative archival practices. They are the 2025 Mellon Doctoral Summer Fellow at the Price Lab for Digital Humanities and recipient of the 2025 Farriss Award for Best Graduate Student Paper from the Center for Latin American and Latinx Studies. Their most recent work “Trans-Atlantic Time in the Borderlands: Racialized Gender and Becoming in the Work of Alan Pelaez Lopez” is forthcoming in the College Literature special issue on Trans Literatures. Their translation of Odette Alonso's poetry volume Old Music Island is under contract and forthcoming in 2026.
Instructor of Record:
Gender and Society, Summer 2024
Gender and Society, Summer 2023
Sex and Representation: Hemispheric Cultural Imaginaries, Spring 2023
Writing the Self: Contemporary Memoir across the Americas, Fall 2022
Graduate Teaching Assistant:
Introduction to Queer Theory, Spring 2022
Introduction to Gender and Society, Fall 2021