Cecily Bernard

Cecily Bernard is the 2024-2025 Post-doctoral Instructor (Portuguese & Spanish) in the Department of World Languages and Cultures, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Cecily earned her PhD in Hispanic Studies and Portuguese from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, her MA in International Relations from the Federal University of Brasilia, Brazil and her BA in Portuguese Language and Literature from the Federal University of Para, Brazil. Her dissertation project entitled “Transnational Discourses, Global Entanglements: Afro-Latin American and Caribbean Literary and Cultural Production from the 19th Century onwards” argues the case for the literary and cultural production of Haiti, Hispanic America, and Brazil as universal cultural production (world literature) by extracting theories from aesthetic and critical products of the region’s Afro descendant cultural producers since the nineteenth century and placing them in dialogue with extant paradigms from the Latin American and Caribbean region and the world. Cecily has also recently published an article entitled “Interculturality, Creolization, and Globalization in Ángeles nómadas by Minelys Sánchez” and produced a Masters’ thesis in Portuguese entitled “A República da Guiana e o mundo: fundamentos básicos para uma inserção guianense no novo contexto internacional.” Her present research/creative activities include writing and teaching in the areas of Comparative (World) Literature, Latin American & Caribbean Literatures and Cultures, African Diasporic Studies, and Global Studies.

Email: cbernar5@utk.edu

Education

PhD in Hispanic Studies and Portuguese from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville
MA in International Relations from the Federal University of Brasilia, Brazil
BA in Portuguese Language and Literature from the Federal University of Para, Brazil