Sarah M. Quesada (NHC Fellow, 2024–25)
Project Title
The Untold South-South: Greater Mexico, African Decolonization, and Latin-African Solidarity (1956–2008)
John E. Sawyer Fellowship; NEH Fellowship, 2024–25
Associate Professor of Romance Studies, Duke University
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Sarah M. Quesada is an associate professor of Romance studies and by courtesy, of gender, sexuality, and feminist Studies at Duke University. Her work focuses on internationalist engagements between Latinx-American and African writers and she is the author of The African Heritage of Latinx and Caribbean Literature (Cambridge UP, December 2022), which received an Honorable Mention for First Book in 2023 from the Modern Languages Association (MLA).
Selected Publications
- Quesada, Sarah M. “Jean Franco, the Commie Camp, and South-South Studies.” PMLA. Forthcoming.
- Quesada, Sarah M. “Latinx Cosmopolitanism: Víctor Hernández Cruz and the Nostalgia of Egypt.” Comparative Literature 76, no. 4 (2024). Forthcoming.
- Quesada, Sarah M. “On Latinx Globalities: The African Cosmopolitanism of Elizabeth ‘Betita’ Martínez and Víctor Hernández Cruz.” Latino Studies 22, no. 1 (June 2024).
- Quesada, Sarah M. The African Heritage of Latinx and Caribbean Literature. Cambridge Studies in World Literature. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2022.
- Quesada, Sarah M. “Nuyorican Internationalism in the French Atlantic: Sandra María Esteves in Art Contre/Against Apartheid and Miguel Algarín in ‘Tangiers’.” Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry 9, no. 3 (2022): 353–80.