Delphine Gras

Delphine Gras is an Assistant Professor and Foreign Languages Coordinator at Florida Gulf Coast University. Her research focuses on 20th-century literature of the Americas and the African Diaspora, with particular emphasis on Black music, cultural studies, and postcolonial theory. She is completing a book project titled New World Griots: Music, Literature, and the Development of the Black Public Sphere, which was a finalist for the 2011 Vanderbilt ICI Book Competition on the African Diaspora.

Her recent scholarly work explores intersections between literature and music, including analyses of Paul Gilroy’s theories, the writings of Shay Youngblood, and the poetry of Nicolás Guillén. Gras’s interdisciplinary approach bridges literary analysis with sociocultural critique, contributing to broader conversations about race, identity, and transnational cultural production.

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