We
are very excited to announce the newest members of the Puerto Rico
Syllabus team: New Curricular Fellows & Research Fellow!
Curricular Fellow
Gabriel Carle (San Juan, 1993) completed a B.A. in
Escritura Creativa at Universidad de Puerto Rico, Río Piedras, and an
M.F.A. in Creative Writing in Spanish at New York University. Their
creative and academic research interests center on issues of Queerness,
Indigeneity, and Blackness in Caribbean literature and activism. They
have won literary prizes at UPR-RP and the University of Houston. In
2018, they published their first short story collection, Mala Leche.
They are currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Spanish and Portuguese Languages
and Literatures at NYU.
Tania M. Ríos Marrero is a community organizer and
graduate student in the library and information science program at the
University of Washington Information School. Her interests include the
use of data, visualization, maps and storytelling in Caribbean digital
scholarship. She was a 2021 Library of Congress Junior Fellow, and has
facilitated workshops and presented her work at the intersection of
libraries and community organizing at the Next Library Conference in
Berlin, the University of Pennsylvania Climate Change, Resilience,
Environmental Justice in Latin America and the Caribbean Conference, and
the New Jersey State Library Leadership Academy. She is currently based
in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Research Assistant
Abner Aldarondo is
an undergraduate senior at Amherst College double majoring in Spanish
and Latinx and Latin American Studies. He is currently working on his
honors thesis tentatively titled Imaging and Imagining Environmental Justice: Puerto Rican Visual Culture in the Anthropocene.
It concerns itself with the malleability of cultural identity and its
entanglement with environmental justice in Puerto Rican artwork from the
homeland and the diaspora.