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Claire Jimenez is an Assistant Professor and McCausland Faculty Fellow at the Department of English Language and Literature within the McCausland College of Arts and Sciences at the University of South Carolina.
- Education: PhD from University of Nebraska-Lincoln, MFA from Vanderbilt University, BA from Colby College.
Her research and creative work span ethnic studies, digital humanities, and transnational literatures, with a focus on Puerto Rican and Caribbean Studies, African American and Latinx literatures, and African diasporic narratives. She merges literary scholarship with digital archiving to amplify underrepresented voices.
Claire is the author of two acclaimed publications: Staten Island Stories (2019) and What Happened to Ruthy Ramirez (2023), the latter winning the 2024 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. Her work is anchored in Caribbean diasporic experiences, postcolonial identity, and interdisciplinary methodologies.
- Scientific Awards:
- 2024 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction
Claire co-founded the Puerto Rican Literature Project, a digital archive, with a $1.3 million grant in 2021 and a subsequent $1.6 million grant in 2025 from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. She has not explicitly listed advisees but is deeply engaged in collaborative, community-driven research.
