Research Expertise and Interest

hemispheric American literature, literary exchanges, anticolonial activism, migration, migration, border crossings, linguistic exchange

Research Description

Dani Cádiz Bedini is an assistant professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese. Her research centers on hemispheric American literatures, literary exchanges, and anticolonial activism, with a focus on migrations, border crossings, and linguistic exchange. Her book project, tentatively titled Crossing the Americas: Empire, Race, and Translation in the Long Nineteenth Century, examines diverse modes of translation that were harnessed as anti-imperialist work in the Americas during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. 

Dani's writing and reviews have appeared or are forthcoming in American Quarterly, MELUS and American Periodicals. She’s also a frequent contributor to the global arts magazine, the Online Gallery.