About
Cynthia is an emerging scholar of Africana Studies, hip hop studies and the intersectionality of identities through race, gender and feminism. She is currently working on her dissertation which focuses on Black and Latina narratives of citizenship and redefining a politics of New World Blackness in America. Cynthia is pursuing her doctoral degree in English at Lehigh University. Education
Pennsylvania State University-B.A. English 2009 (Minor: American Studies)
Villanova University-M.A. English 2013
Lehigh University-PhD. English (In Progress) Publications
2015 Book Chapter: “‘My President Is Black’: Speech Act Theory and Presidential Allusions in the Lyrics of Rap Music” Co-authored chapter with James B. Peterson in The Hip Hop & Obama Reader Edited by Travis L. Gosa & Erik Nielson (Oxford University Press.)
2014 Thesis: Navigating the Miscegenated Identity: Failure, Success and the Post-Racial Conflict in Johnson’s
Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man, Hurston’s
Their Eyes Were Watching God and Mansbach’s
Angry, Black White Boy: The Miscegenation of Macon Detournay (Villanova University)
2014 The Feminist Wire: Authored feature essay titled “La Femenista Presence” published at
http://thefeministwire.com/2014/07/la-femenista-presence/
Memberships
Modern Language Association
National Women’s Studies Association
Puerto Rican Studies Association for Research Advocacy and Education, Inc.
Penn State Alumni Association-LI’ve Member
