Charlotte Rogers

Charlotte Rogers is Associate Professor of Spanish at the University of Virginia, where she is a core faculty member in the Environmental Humanities, founding director of the Interdisciplinary Doctoral Fellowship in Caribbean Literatures, Arts, and Cultures, and co-founder of the Greater Caribbean Studies Network. She is also an affiliate of Latin American Studies and active faculty in the Ph.D. program in Spanish. Currently on leave for the 2024-2025 academic year, Rogers has held the Lisa Smith Discovery Chair (2020-2023) and will join the Editorial Board of the University of Virginia Press beginning in 2025.

Rogers specializes in twentieth- and twenty-first-century literature, art, and culture from Latin America and the Caribbean, examining representations of the tropical Americas from decolonial and environmental humanities perspectives. Her research explores how literary texts and works of art engage with environmental change and imagine possible ecological futures. She has published extensively on Caribbean and Latin American literature, with a particular focus on the Amazon, Puerto Rico, and ecological themes.

Rogers's scholarly work reveals strong trends in environmental humanities, Caribbean studies, and postcolonial ecocriticism. Her publications consistently examine the intersections of literature, ecology, and decolonial thought, with particular attention to multispecies relations, extractivism, and climate disaster. She has pioneered approaches that connect literary analysis with contemporary environmental challenges, especially in the Caribbean context.

• Honorable Mention: Latin American Studies Association Amazonia section Best Book Prize, 2020

As an educator and mentor, Rogers has been deeply involved in doctoral training through the Interdisciplinary Doctoral Fellowship in Caribbean Literatures, Arts, and Cultures. Her professional service includes editorial board positions for Revista de Estudios Hispánicos and ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and the Environment, as well as previous service on the Peer Advisory Board of PMLA (2020-2023). Beyond academia, she serves as an Ambassador for the National Aphasia Association, drawing on her personal experience as a caregiver for a loved one with primary progressive aphasia.