Raphael Dalleo

Raphael Dalleo teaches world literature in English at Bucknell University, with a particular focus on Caribbean literature and postcolonial theory. He has received honors and grants including the FAU University Scholar of the Year Award and a fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies. He has participated in an NEH Summer Institute at Johns Hopkins University, and his research has been supported by the Tinker Foundation and FAU's Lifelong Learning Society for travel to archives in Jamaica, Cuba, and Guyana. In 2013-2014, he was a Scholar in Residence at the New York Public Library's Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. His essays have been published in journals such as Small Axe, Journal of West Indian Literature, South Asian Review, and Interventions, and he serves on the International Advisory Board of the journal Latino Studies.

He is coauthor of The Latino/a Canon and the Emergence of Post-Sixties Literature (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007), a study of recent Latino/a literature's relationship to the ideologies of the civil rights era. His first single-authored book was Caribbean Literature and the Public Sphere: From the Plantation to the Postcolonial (University of Virginia Press, 2011), a comparative literary history of the Caribbean. His newest monograph, American Imperialism's Undead: The U.S. Occupation of Haiti and the Rise of Caribbean Anticolonialism, won the Caribbean Studies Association's 2017 Gordon K. and Sibyl Lewis Prize for best book about the Caribbean.

See more at http://raphaeldalleo.scholar.bucknell.edu/.