Yomaira Figueroa-Vásquez

Dr. Yomaira C. Figueroa-Vásquez is the director of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies (CENTRO) and a professor of Africana, Puerto Rican and Latino Studies. Professor Figueroa’s teaching and research focus on Latinx Caribbean and Afro-Hispanic literatures and diasporas, women of color, and decolonial Feminisms. She is the author of the award-winning book Decolonizing Diasporas: Radical Mappings of Afro-Atlantic Literature (Northwestern University Press, 2020; translated by Editora Educación Emergente, 2023), and the forthcoming book, The Survival of a People (under contract with Duke University Press). Her published work can be found in Hypatia, Decolonization, CENTRO Journal, Small Axe, Frontiers Journal, Hispanofilia, Contemporânea, Diálogos, and Feminist Formations. Her website can be found at http://www.yomairafigueroa.com.