Jeannine Murray-Román (JMR)

Associate Professor of French and Spanish in the Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics at Florida State University

My research focuses on comparative Caribbean literatures with an emphasis on postcolonial, transnational, digital humanities, and performance studies. I’ve published articles in Interventions, French Screen Studies, New Centennial Review, small axe, among others. My monograph, Performance and Personhood in Caribbean Literature, was published by the University of Virginia Press in February, 2016.

At FSU, I work with graduate students interested in comparative methodologies and the Caribbean region and I teach a range of cultural studies, and media and conversation courses, in Spanish, French, and in translation.

My current book project, “Changing Imaginaries,” explores Caribbean artists’ and philosophers’ experimental processes in the cognitive-sensorial relays that enable us to change our own minds.