Comparative Literature

Ale Morales is a third-year doctoral student in the Department of Comparative Literature. Their work treats the site and spectre of the post-abolition sugar plantation as a ground of comparison for Brazilian and Franco-Hispanophone Caribbean modernist poets (Augusto dos Anjos, Saint-John Perse, Aimé Césaire, Virgílio Piñera, João Cabral de Melo Neto), with the goal of incorporating their treatment of crisis into an expanded discourse on the Plantationocene (Ferdinand) and current ecological crisis in the time of the greater Capitalocene (Moore). As a Mellon Mays fellow, they previously explored a nascent idea of this project in their undergraduate thesis, "L’incapacité d’un dire : La pensée écologique d’Aimé Césaire et João Cabral de Melo Neto dans moi, laminaire… (1982) et Agrestes (1985)." Beyond their research, they are active in labor organizing: currently, they co-chair the Graduate Labor Organization's Bargaining Committee for contract negotiations, and they previously co-founded and bargained for the Student Worker Collective at Dartmouth.

Education:

B.A. in Romance Languages, Dartmouth College, 2024  

Languages:

English, Spanish, Portuguese, French