Maja Horn

Maja Horn is an Associate Professor of Spanish and Latin American Cultures at Barnard College, with cross-appointments in Africana Studies, American Studies, and Theatre. Previously, she served as a research associate at FLACSO (Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales) in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic (2005-2006), where she developed and taught a performance studies concentration.

Education:

• B.A., Smith College, 1998
• M.A., NYU, 2002
• Ph.D., Cornell University, 2005

Her research centers on Hispanophone Caribbean cultures, emphasizing literature, visual and performance art, gender and sexuality studies, and political culture. Her monograph Masculinity after Trujillo: The Politics of Gender in Dominican Literature (2014) analyzes U.S. imperialism's impact on Dominican masculinity through pivotal writers like Rita Indiana Hernández and Junot Díaz. She has completed Queer Dominican Genealogies: Same-Sex Desire in Dominican Literature and Culture and is developing Beyond Independence and Inclusion: Disability Narratives in the Americas, challenging normative frameworks in disability advocacy through comparative North-South American narratives.

She teaches courses including Race and Performance in the Caribbean (Africana Studies/Theatre), Global Literatures: The Caribbean Diaspora (First-Year Seminar), and Literature of the Spanish Caribbean.