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Sarah Bruno is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English at Michigan State University and a former postdoctoral fellow at Rice University's Latinx Art, Cultures, Religions Humanities Research Center. She specializes in the intersections of art, ethnography, performance, and diaspora, particularly focusing on the Afro-Puerto Rican genre of bomba. Her current work includes a manuscript titled 'Black Rican Dexterity,' which constructs a cartography of Black Puerto Rican femme feeling and history. She has received notable fellowships including the Mellon ACLS Dissertation Fellowship and has been recognized with the Vera Green Prize from the Association of Black Anthropologists for public anthropology. At Duke University, she served as an ACLS Emerging Voices Race and Digital Technologies postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Cultural Anthropology and is a member of the Black Latinas Know Collective. Her research contributes to understanding Black Puerto Rican digital spaces and their archival significance.
Latinx Art, Cultures, Religions Humanities Research Center, Rice University • Houston, TX
Research focused on art and cultural practices within Latinx communities.
Department of English, Michigan State University • East Lansing, MI
Teaching and research in English with a focus on diasporic studies.
Department of Psychology