Paula Sanmartín

Paula Sanmartín is a Professor in the Department of Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures at California State University, Fresno. She teaches courses in Afro-Spanish and Afro-Caribbean literatures, with a focus on African American and Afro-Latin American women's writing. She has also served as Cohort Leader for the CAH Honors program (2018-2019) and Graduate Coordinator for the M.A. Program in Spanish (2016-2020).

• Ph.D. in Comparative Literature with concentrations in African American and Afro-Cuban literature from the University of Texas at Austin
• M.A. in Comparative Literature from the University of Texas at Austin
• Licenciatura (5-year B.A.) in English Philology from Universidad Complutense de Madrid

Her research explores intersections of race, gender, and national identity in African American and Caribbean literatures, with a particular emphasis on Afro-Caribbean identities and postcolonial theory. She has published extensively in journals like MaComere and Revista Iberoamericana, and her editorial work includes co-editing bilingual editions of Cuban women writers' texts through Cubanabooks.

Her notable publications include Black Women as Custodians of History: Unsung Rebel (M)Others in African American and Afro-Cuban Women's Writing (2014) and Reading/Speaking/Writing the Mother Text: Essays on Caribbean Women's Writing (2015). She has taught courses ranging from Afro-Hispanic Women’s Literature to The Poetics of Caribbeanness.

• Visiting Scholar Fellowship at University of California, San Diego