Fernanda Díaz-Basteris

Ph.D., University of California, Davis. 2019

Caribbean Studies
Latinx Studies
Non-Fiction Graphic Narratives
Comics Studies
Visual Studies
20th and 21st Century Latin American Literature

Dr. Díaz-Basteris is an interdisciplinary scholar who has dedicated her research and teaching practice to understanding U.S. Caribbean/Latinx cultural forms of resistance to displacement, coloniality, and racial capitalism through literature, popular art, and graphic narratives from the mid-20th to 21st centuries. Her current research is looking at visual representations of topics, such as Femicide in Puerto Rico, the undocumented American life experience, the social-political crisis of disasters’ aftermath, and the communal digital storytelling of forced displacement. Her teaching experience is supplemented by presentations and public lectures at national and international venues. She received a Ph.D. in Latin American Literatures and Cultures with a dual emphasis in Latinx and Caribbean Visual Cultures from the University of California, Davis in 2019.