Dawn Duke

Dawn Duke, professor of Spanish and Portuguese in the Department of Modern Foreign Languages and Literatures at the University of Tennessee, was awarded the Lindsay Young Professorship (2021-2023) for excellence in research in the Humanities. She is the current chair of the Portuguese Program and one of the former chairs of the Africana Studies Program. She is affiliated faculty in the Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program. Her graduate studies were completed at UNICAMP in Brazil, the University of Guyana, and the University of Pittsburgh where she completed her PhD. Her research focuses on Afro-Latin American Literature with a special interest in women's writings. Her publications are Literary Passion, Ideological Commitment (Bucknell University Press 2008, single-authored); A Escritora Afro-Brasileira (Nandyala 2016, organizer); and Celluloid Chains (University of Tennessee Press 2018, one of the editors). She has published multiple articles and book chapters on Afro-Descendant women writings across Latin America.