Sarah M. Quesada is an Andrew W. Mellon Assistant Professor of Romance Studies and Gender, Sexuality & Feminist Studies at Duke University. She is the author of The African Heritage of Latinx and Caribbean Literature (Cambridge UP 2022), which is the first book-length project to unveil the legacy of African history—from slave trade archives to the effects of Cold war internationalism or neoliberalism in Africa—in canonical Latinx and Latin American writing. Reviews and a symposium on the book have featured in Public Books and Syndic. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Comparative Literature, American Quarterly, Small Axe, Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry, Latino Studies, among other places. She serves on the Executive Committee for the MLA’s TC Anthropology and Literature and the advisory board of Meridians: feminism, race, transnationalism (Duke UP).