Jossianna Arroyo

Born in San Juan Puerto Rico (1967), Jossianna Arroyo is a literary and cultural studies scholar who specializes in the analysis of Afro-Diasporic literatures and cultures in the Americas. She is the author of "Travestismos culturales: literatura y etnografía en Cuba y Brasil "(Pittsburgh: Iberoamericana, 2003 and Almenara P 2019) a critique of cultural racism in the work of Gilberto Freyre (Brasil) and Fernando Ortiz (Cuba) and several Cuban and Brazilian novels, and "Writing Secrecy in Caribbean Freemasonry" (Palgrave, 2013), an analysis of transnational, racial and colonial dimensions of Masonic encounters in the circum-Caribbean and the United States (1850-1898). Her new book, "Caribes 2.0: New Media, Globalization and the Afterlives of Disaster" (forthcoming in 2023 by the Race and Media series at Rutgers UP) analyzes the role of media and new media in the Caribbean and its diasporas. She has contributing essays on Brazilian and Caribbean Literatures at Lusosex Sexualities in the Portuguese Speaking World (2002) and Technofuturos (2008). She has published at Encuentro de la cultura cubana, La Habana Elegante, Revista de Estudios Hispánicos, Journal of Latino Studies, among many other national and international publications.