Dr. Margarita Castroman

Margarita M. Castromán Soto is an Assistant Professor of English, core faculty member of the Center for African and African American Studies and affiliate faculty member of the Center for Latin American and Latinx Studies at Rice University. In her research and teaching, she focuses on twentieth and twenty-first century African American, Latinx, and Caribbean literatures with a particular emphasis on archive theory and digital culture. Her current book project, “Archive Blues: Collecting Race in Twentieth-Century Black Literature and Culture” explores how twentieth and twenty-first century Black writers theorize archives as new ways of being, understanding, and recording the human.