MOROS Y CUBANOS: Medievalism and Coloniality in a 19th-Century Cuban Account of the Spanish Penal Colony in Ceuta

Christina Civantos, Professor at the University of Miami

Christina Civantos is a Professor at the University of Miami specializing in Arabic and Mediterranean Studies, with a broad interdisciplinary focus that includes cultural studies, Francophone and Latin American literatures, Caribbean studies, and transatlantic and decolonial approaches. She earned her Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley (1999), following earlier degrees from Berkeley and Duke University.

Her research explores connections across the Arab, Mediterranean, and Hispanic worlds, with particular attention to translation, post-Andalusian memory, and the cultural politics of modernity. She is the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the University of Miami’s Center for the Humanities and Office of Civic & Community Engagement. Her recent publications examine themes such as Orientalism, global solidarities, and the afterlives of al-Andalus in contemporary literature.

Asian and Middle Eastern Studies