Danielle Dorvil is a PhD candidate in Spanish and Portuguese at Vanderbilt University. Her research interests are critical race theory, women’s and gender studies, and nation-building discourse in Caribbean and Latin American literature and popular culture. Her dissertation “Shouting Unsilenced: Black Female Positionality and Critique in Brazilian, Haitian, and Dominican Fiction” examines nineteenth century to contemporary literary portrayals of Black women’s positionality in the processes of Brazilian, Haitian, and Dominican national formation.
