Dr. Alírio Karina

Assistant Professor

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Biography

Alírio Karina is an Assistant Professor of Black Studies at the University of Warwick, specializing in African and Comparative Literatures. Before joining Warwick in 2024, Karina taught at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and served as an organizer and faculty member at the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research and the Mimbres School for Humanities. From 2020 to 2023, Karina was a National Research Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow at the Archive and Public Culture Research Initiative at the University of Cape Town. In 2023-2024, Karina will be a Postdoctoral Research Associate at Princeton University's African Humanities Colloquium. The research interests include concepts of Blackness and Africanity, intersectionality of race and caste, the history of slavery, and memory politics. Karina also engages with broader anthropological discourses surrounding race, including visual culture and material collections. In the upcoming academic year, Karina welcomes postgraduate students interested in narrative slavery, race, and material culture for supervision and teaching.

Research Interests

Experience

Assistant Professor

2024-01-01 — Present

University of Warwick • Coventry, England

Teach courses on Black Studies and supervise postgraduate students.

Postdoctoral Research Associate

2023-01-01 — 2024-01-01

Princeton University • Princeton, NJ

Conduct research in the African Humanities Colloquium.

Postdoctoral Fellow

2020-01-01 — 2023-01-01

University of Cape Town • Cape Town, South Africa

Engaged in research at the Archive and Public Culture Research Initiative.

Requirements for University of Warwick

Master Program
Requirements
GPA Requirement
Required:2.1
IELTS
Listening
Required:6
Reading
Required:6
Writing
Required:6
Speaking
Required:6
Overall
Required:6.5
TOEFL
Listening
Required:21
Reading
Required:22
Writing
Required:21
Speaking
Required:23
Total
Required:92
PTE
Listening
Required:59
Reading
Required:59
Writing
Required:59
Speaking
Required:59
Overall
Required:62
Duolingo
Overall Score
Required:120
Overall
Required:120
Prerequisites
Bachelor degree in Engineering or a related STEM discipline
Application Checklist
  • Online application form
  • Official transcripts
  • Degree certificate
  • Personal statement
  • One academic reference
  • CV/Resume
  • English language proficiency evidence
Specialization Notes

Includes General, Mechanical, Civil, Electrical, Biomedical, and Manufacturing Engineering. Most programs fall under English Band A.