Cloe Gentile Reyes

Dr. Cloe Gentile Reyes is a Faculty Fellow in the Department of Music at New York University. Her research focuses on decolonial sound studies, exploring how Caribbean femmes navigate trauma and healing through reggaetón, fashion, and dance. She employs autoethnographic methodologies like autohistoría-teoría to center Afro-Indigenous epistemologies.

• PhD, Musicology, UC Santa Barbara (2023)
• MA, Musicology, UC Santa Barbara (2020)
• BA, Sociology & Music, Emory University (2017)

Her current projects include Sounding Sucia: Decolonial Embodiments in Reggaetón and work on Indigenous Caribbean relationships to land and environmental racism. She teaches courses on decolonial listening, reggaetón’s healing potentials, and global rap studies.

Awards:

• 2022-23 Judith Tick Fellow in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
• 2021-22 Dissertation Fellow, Chicano Studies Institute

Her creative works include poetry in BIPOC Song Anthology and How to Wake Latin Bodies.