Claudia Milian, Assistant Professor of Romance Studies, Spanish

Claudia Milian received her Ph.D. in American Civilization from Brown University. Prior to her appointment at Duke, she was a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Humanities at Harverford College and a Visiting Assistant Professor at Brown. Milian teaches courses on U.S. Latina/o cultural productions, comparative African American and U.S. Latina/o epistemologies, Central American literature, and critical race studies in the Americas. Among her research interests are approaches to mestizaje and creolization, transnational identities and cultural representations in new world postcolonial studies, with an emphasis on migration, the malaise of alienation, and citizenship. Milian is currently working on a book that remaps how double consciousness, color-lines, and the borderlands are deployed by Africana, Chicana/o, and Latina/o subjects. At the same time, she is working on a new theoretical grammar that explores the relationship between (Africana) blackness and (Latina/o) brownness, their intersections, overlapping discourses, and differences. She is co-editor of The Central American-American Studies Reader (forthcoming), an anthology on the "new" U.S. Central American landscape, which raises questions on the relationship of these subjects to Latinidad, and the ways that beings and "things" from Central America figure in both U.S. popular and neocolonial imaginaries.

Office Location:	09 Languages Building
Office Phone:	(919) 660-3130
Email Address:

Teaching (Fall 2009):

• SPANISH 142S.02, SPANISH LITERATURE (TOP) Synopsis

  Perkins 2-070, TuTh 04:25 PM-05:40 PM

• LIT 162ZS.02, SP TOP LIT/NATL CULTURES

  Perkins 2-070, TuTh 01:15 PM-02:30 PM

• SPANISH 181S.01, U S LAT LIT/CUL ST (TOP) Synopsis

  Perkins 2-070, TuTh 01:15 PM-02:30 PM

Education:

Ph.D.	Brown University	2001
A.M.	Brown University	1997
B.A.	Hampshire College	1994

Specialties:

Spanish

Research Interests:

• Twentieth Century U.S. Latina and Latino Literature and Cultural Studies
  
• Contemporary Latin American Literature and Criticism
• Contemporary African American Cultural Productions, Social Movements, and Identities
• Critical Race Theory
• New World Postcolonial Studies
• Translation Studies
  

Representative Publications

1. C. Milian, Playing with the Dark: Africana and Latino Literary Imaginations, in A Companion to African-American Studies, edited by Lewis R. Gordon and Jane Anna Gordon (2006), pp. 543–568, Blackwell Publishing
2. Fashioning U.S. Salvadoranness: Unveiling the Faces of Christy Turlington and Rosa Lopez, in The Latin American Fashion Reader, edited by Regina A. Root (2005), pp. 263–279, Berg Publishers
3. New Languages, New Humanities: The 'Mixed Race' Narrative and the Borderlands, in A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, edited by David Theo Goldberg and John Solomos (2002), pp. 355–364, Blackwell Publishing