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Tania Triana, Mentor
Romance Languages (Spanish)

Sharryl Sosa-Rodriguez , McNair Scholar

Tania Triana joined the Spanish faculty in the Department of Romance Languages in 2004 after receiving her Ph.D. from the University of California at San Diego. Her dissertation, “Cana Quema: Narrating Race, Gender, and Nation(s) in Cuba,” highlights her continuing research interests in Caribbean studies, race theory, and gender and African diaspora studies. She has several studies in progress: “Rewriting the Legacy of Cecilia Valdés in Republican Cuba;” Black and Beyond: Narratives of Reracialization in the Americas; and “Guillén and Rap Cubano in the Special Period.”