UMass Boston

Alicia Rodriguez, Assistant Professor, Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures Department

Alicia Rodriguez

Department:
Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures Department
Title:
Assistant Professor
Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies

Biography

Alicia Doyen-Rodríguez is an Assistant Professor of Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies. She obtained her PhD in French and Francophone Literature from Emory University (Atlanta, GA) in May 2023. She specialises in literature, visual art, and digital projects in the French-speaking Caribbean.

Area of Expertise

20th-21st century Caribbean Literature. Digital Humanities and Pedadody. Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. Decolonial studies. 

Degrees

PhD, Emory University

M.A., Université Sorbonne Paris-IV

 

Additional Information

Professor Doyen-Rodríguez's research and pedagogy in Digital Humanities has been recognized by several grants and fellowships, amongst them a “Capacity-Building” fellowship awarded by the Digital Ethnic Futures Consortium, a Caribbean Digital Scholarship Collective at Yale University, and fellowship for Public Facing Humanities by the Mellon Foundation an at Emory University.

Alicia Doyen-Rodríguez is a native speaker of French and a proud heritage speaker of Spanish.