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Alexander Gil Fuentes is Senior Lecturer II and Associate Research Faculty of Digital Humanities in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Yale University. He specializes in Caribbean culture and history, digital humanities, and technology design for diverse infrastructural contexts. His work focuses on cultural record ownership, scholarly infrastructure, and socio-economic impacts of digital tools.
Education: PhD in Spanish Literature from the University of Virginia (2012).
Research Interests: His interdisciplinary work bridges Caribbean studies and digital humanities, emphasizing collaborative projects like Torn Apart/Separados, In The Same Boats, and Wax. He explores how technology shapes cultural preservation and scholarly practices, particularly in under-resourced environments.
Grants & Leadership: Co-Principal Investigator of the Caribbean Digital Scholarship Collective (Andrew W. Mellon Foundation-funded). Active in initiatives like the Caribbean Digital Conference and Archipelagos Journal.
Labs/Teams: Co-founder of Columbia University’s Butler Studio and Group for Experimental Methods in Humanistic Research. Current projects include the Mellon-funded Caribbean Digital Scholarship Collective and editorial roles in Archipelagos and digital humanities quarterly.
