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Danielle Roper is the Neubauer Family Assistant Professor in Latin American Literature at the University of Chicago's Department of Romance Languages and Literatures. She holds a Ph.D. in Spanish and Portuguese and an MA in Performance Studies from New York University. Her research focuses on racial queer performance, feminist activism, and racial formation in contemporary Latin America and the Caribbean. Roper's work has been featured in publications such as GLQ, Latin American Research Review, and Small Axe, and she is currently completing a book titled 'Racial Reckoning: Black Performance in Visual Art of Caribbean Diasporas.' She has been awarded the Thomas J. Watson fellowship in 2006 and is actively involved in discussions around racial narratives in media. Roper teaches a variety of courses on U.S. imperialism, cultural practices, and afro-latinidad, and is the curator of the exhibit 'Visualizing/Performing Blackness: Afterlives of Slavery in the Caribbean Archive.'
Department of Philosophy