Cera Smith
6th Year
Areas of Interest:
20th-/ 21st-century U.S. Black Literature (especially, African American, Black diasporic, and Afro-Latinx), Black Studies and Critical Race Theories, Affect, Body Studies
Dissertation Topic:
Embodied Blackness: Encountering the Racialized Biological Body in U.S. Black Literary and Visual Art
Advisors: Jacqueline Goldsby, Tavia Nyong’o, Aimee Meredith Cox