Join us for a Research Bites conversation with Danielle Roper! Read more about them and their work here: https://rll.uchicago.edu/danielle-roper.

Danielle Roper is Assistant Professor in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at the University of Chicago. She holds a Ph.D in Spanish and Portuguese and an MA in Performance Studies from New York University. Her work on racial and queer performance, feminist activism, and racial formation in contemporary Latin America and the Caribbean has appeared in GLQ, Latin American Research Review, and Small Axe.  Her first book Hemispheric Blackface: Impersonation and Nationalist Fictions in the Americas was written with the support of the Neubauer Family Assistant Fellowship and is with Duke University Press (May 2025). 

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