Cera Smith
6th Year
Areas of Interest:
Twentieth-/21st-century U.S. ethnic literatures (especially African American, black diasporic, chicanx, and latinx), Radical protest literatures of the U.S.; critical race theories, coloniality/decoloniality, body studies.
Dissertation Topic:
Embodied Blackness: Encountering the Racialized Biological Body in U.S. Black Literary, Visual, and Performance Art
Advisors: Jacqueline Goldsby, Aimee Meredith Cox, Tavia Nyong’o