Cera Smith
7th Year
Areas of Interest:
20th-/21st-century U.S. Black Literatures (African American, Afro-Latinx, and other Black diasporic), Radical Protest Literatures of the U.S., Black Studies, Critical Race Theories, Affect Theory, Gender and Sexuality, Histories of Science and Medicine, and Body Studies
Dissertation Topic:
Vivified Viscerality: Bioscience and the Black Interior in U.S. Black Literature and Sculpture
Advisors: Jacqueline Goldsby, Tavia Nyong’o, Aimee Meredith Cox
Website: cera-smith.com