Comparative Literature
Katerina Ramos-Jordán
Research Interests
Caribbean literature and film, Literary and Cultural Theory, aesthetics, Race and Slavery, environmental history, literary tropes in film, 20th century and contemporary experimental cinema, continental philosophy
Biography
Katerina I. Ramos-Jordán is a first-year student in the Department of Comparative Literature at Brown University. Her research focuses on the intersections of aesthetics, historical narratives, and race. Through tracing discourses of antiblackness in 20th-century Caribbean literature and film, Ramos-Jordán’s work aims to deconstruct how discourses of antiblackness shape and sustain ethnonationalism and nationalism.
Katerina is also a poet and interdisciplinary artist.
Education:
B.A. in English and Dance, Wesleyan University, 2021
MPhil in Film and Screen Studies, University of Cambridge, October 2023
Languages:
Spanish, English, Portuguese, and French (Intermediate)