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Rafael Cesar holds a Ph.D. in Spanish and Portuguese from New York University (2021). His main research and teaching interests revolve around comparative racial imaginaries and race relations from a transatlantic perspective. This includes comparative African and Afro-Diasporic histories, popular cultures, cultural production in literature and cinema, gender relations, and political thought. His current book project, 'Fictions Racelessness: ‘Latin American’ Racial Imaginaries Angola (1878-2002)', examines the racial imagination in twentieth-century Angolan nationalism, contrasting it with common Pan-African and Afro-Centric race-centered nationalisms. He has published a book titled 'Kuatica Ó Ngoma' (2011) and several scholarly articles on African authors and Afro-Diasporic literatures. He has conducted archival field research in Angola, Portugal, Brazil, Cuba, Germany, and France, supported by multiple academic organizations. Before joining Princeton, he taught courses on the literatures and cultures of Latin America, the Caribbean, and Portuguese-speaking Africa at New York University and public universities in Brazil.
Princeton University • Princeton, NJ
Teaches courses on literatures and cultures of Latin America, the Caribbean, and Portuguese-speaking Africa.
GRE scores are not accepted. Ph.D. is the primary degree; students are not required to hold an M.S.E. prior to admission.