Sonja Watson, Ph.D.
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Dr. Sonja Stephenson Watson is Director of the Women's & Gender Studies Program and Associate Professor of Spanish at the University of Texas at Arlington. She received her Ph.D. in Hispanic Literature from the University of Tennessee-Knoxville. Her areas of specialty are Afro-Panamanian Literature, Hispanic Caribbean Literature, and reggae en español. Dr. Watson has published articles in the Afro-Hispanic Review, Cincinnati Romance Review, the College Language Association Journal, the Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies Journal, PALARA, Callaloo, Hispania and alter/nativas. Her manuscript, The Politics of Race in Panama: Afro-Hispanic and West Indian Literary Discourses of Contention (University Press of Florida 2014) deals with the forging of Afro-Panamanian identity.
- 2005 - PhD in Modern Languages(Spanish), University of Tennessee
- 2000 - MA in Spanish, University of Tennessee
- 1995 - BA in Spanish, College of William and Mary
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Office: 322 Hammond Hall swatson1@uta.edu
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The ‘Failed’ Project of Blackness in Contemporary Afro-Puerto Rican Discourse
(Department of Foreign Languages & Literatures at North Carolina State UniversityDepartment of Modern Languages, The University of Texas at Arlington, Spring 200) -
“Double Bind / Double Consciousness” in the Poetry of Carmen Colón Pellot and Julia de Burgos
(Department of Romance Languages and Literatures of the University of Cincinnati.Department of Modern Languages, The University of Texas at Arlington, Winter2011)