Mauricio Acuña

Mauricio Acuña

Dartmouth College
Mauricio Acuña

Mauricio Acuña (Ph.D. Princeton, 2021) is a scholar of Afro-Latin American Studies, specializing in modern and contemporary literatures and cultures of African Diaspora in the Americas, with a special focus on Brazil and Cuba. His research interests include the poetics, performances and aesthetics of Afro-diasporic artists and intellectuals, Black internationalisms in the Global South, race relations, anti-racist practices between Africa and the Americas, and Digital Humanities applied to spatial translation of aesthetics. As a Rising Scholar Postdoctoral Fellow in the Global Studies Program and the Department of Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese at the University of Virginia, Acuña works on his book project, Poetics and Performances of Afro-Atlantic Imaginations: The First World Festival of Negro Arts, which explores how previously understudied Afro-Latin American artists and writers shaped the aesthetic creations, anti-racist politics, and the rise of a Black Internationalism in the South Atlantic between 1930-1970.

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