Yanie Fecu is a scholar specializing in race, media technologies, and the Caribbean. She earned her PhD in Comparative Literature from Princeton University and held a fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania in the Departments of Music and Africana Studies before joining the University of Wisconsin-Madison as an assistant professor.

She is currently revising her first book manuscript, which examines an ongoing preoccupation with sound production and sound processing in Caribbean media in the wake of global anticolonial struggles. Her second book project focuses on the intersection of infrastructure and antiblackness throughout the Americas. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in American Literary History, The Cambridge Companion to the Black Body in American Literature, and The Aesthetic Life of Infrastructure, among others. Her research has received generous support from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies, and the Harry Ransom Center.