Currently, she is an assistant professor in the English Department of Bronx Community College-CUNY. She received her Ph.D. in English—Latino/a literature from the UT at San Antonio and has presented her work internationally in places like London, England; Cartagena, Colombia; Catalonia, Spain; and throughout the United States.  Her creative work is published in pretty much any place focused on critical cultural critique.  She also performs her poetry at such venues as the Nuyorican Poet’s Café and the Bowery Poetry Club in New York City, as well as the Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center in San Antonio and the Chicago Poetry Festival. Her scholarly work often explores Afro-Latina Caribbean. Dr. Grisel Y. Acosta is a fearless writer and scholar who hails from Chicago. literatures and race theory in relation to ecocriticism, and her poetry unapologetically expresses that space where the personal and political transect.

 

 

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