Sahai Couso Díaz joined the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures faculty in 2024. She received her joint Ph.D. in Spanish studies and comparative media analysis and practice from Vanderbilt University in 2023. She was a Hastac Scholar, a 2020-2021 Andrew W. Mellon Fellow for Digital Humanities and a 2022-2023 fellow at the Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities at Vanderbilt University. She held a visiting position at Williams College and taught at her alma mater, the University of Havana, Cuba.
Her research and teaching interests include race, science, literature and museum studies in Latin America and the Caribbean during the colonial period and beyond. Her interests stretch far and wide as she is also drawn to media studies, visual culture and emerging technologies. Her essays have appeared in Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, Chasqui and Confluencia.
Areas of Expertise
Eighteenth to twenty-first century Spanish and Latin American literature and media; transatlantic and hemispheric studies; museum studies; ethnic and race studies
Education
2023 — Doctor of Philosophy from Vanderbilt University
2019 — Master of Arts from Vanderbilt University
2013 — Bachelor of Arts in Hispanic Literature from the University of Havana