Rate My Professor Alana Reid

Reid's research centers on gender and sexuality in 20th- and 21st-century Hispanic culture, with additional interests in Caribbean literatures and cultures, 20th- and 21st-century Latin American narrative, gender studies, globalization, transatlantic studies, nationalisms, and film studies. She has published articles in journals such as Letras Femeninas, Hispania, and Hispanófila. Notable publications include "Sexuality Uncensored: Subversion and Morality in the Poetry of Jaime Gil de Biedma" (2016), "Gender Transformations and Colonial Displacements in Laura Antillano’s 'Tuna de mar'" (2015), "The Erotic Union of Marxist and Feminist Thought in Gioconda Belli’s La mujer habitada" (2010), and "Piracy, Globalization and Marginal Identities: Navigating Gender and Nationality in Contemporary Hispanic Fiction" (2009). She is currently developing a book manuscript on representations of cross-dressing pirates in Latin American fiction. Reid was named a service-learning faculty fellow for 2019-2020.