Nohora Arrieta is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Georgetown University, where she specializes in Latin American and Caribbean literature, Afro-Latin American culture, poetics and visual arts. Her dissertation (and first book project) discusses the aesthetics and politics behind contemporary works of visual art about the sugar plantation produced by afro-descendants artists in Brazil and the Caribbean. Other of her projects (We were there before) examines family archives, memorabilia and contemporary works of art to discuss the migrations of Black and Indigenous women in the continental Caribbean (Venezuela-Colombia).
She is a Mellon Foundation fellow (2020-2021) and currently is co-translating from Spanish into English the poetry of Afro-Colombian poets Romulo Bustos and Pedro Blas, and co-editing a number of Transition Magazine about contemporary Afro-Brazilian arts.
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