Lydia Millhon is a Ph.D. student in Hispanic Languages and Literatures at UC Berkeley with a Designated Emphasis in New Media. She completed her M.A. in Latin American Studies from the Center for Latin American Studies at Georgetown University and received her B.A. with Honors in Spanish at Wake Forest University. At UC Berkeley, she previously worked on the editorial board of Lucero and currently co-organizes the Contemporary Cuban Studies working group. Her dissertation surveys intellectuals and literary practices in Cuba and Brazil, highlighting Black authorship and confrontations of race in cultural production. She retraces poetry and visual art from the movements of Negrismo to Concretismo in these countries to unveil afro-diasporic networks of cultural belonging. Throughout years of archival research, her project has been supported by the Cuban Heritage Collection at the University of Miami, Florida, the Tinker Foundation, the UC Cuba Academic Initiative, the Rafael Soriano Foundation, the UCB John L. Simpson Pre-Dissertation Research Fellowship in International and Area Studies, and the UCB Graduate Assembly Professional Development Award.
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Ph.D. Student
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Department of Spanish and Portuguese
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