Dr. Samantha Pinto

Biography

Samantha Pinto is a Professor in the Department of English at the University of Texas at Austin, where she is also core faculty in Women's Gender Studies and affiliated faculty in African & African Diaspora Studies at the John L. Warfield Center for African American Studies. She previously served as Associate Professor of English and African American Studies at Georgetown University. Pinto's scholarly contributions include her book 'Difficult Diasporas: Transnational Feminist Aesthetic Black Atlantic,' published by NYU Press in 2013, which won the William Sanders Scarborough Prize from the Modern Language Association in the same year. Her research has been featured in prominent journals such as Meridians, Signs, Palimpsest, Small Axe, Public Culture, and Early American Literature. She has been awarded fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the National Humanities Center. Pinto earned her Ph.D. in English from UCLA in 2007, focusing on Feminist theory, sexuality theory, African American and African diaspora literature, postcolonial literature, aesthetics, celebrity culture, and divorce.

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