Sharina Maíllo-Pozo is associate professor in the Department of Romance Languages at the University of Georgia and serves as the Faculty Director of the Spanish Residential Community at Mary Lyndon. She specializes in Latinx and Caribbean literature and culture, with a particular focus on the cultural production of the Dominican Republic and its diaspora in the United States. Some of her research papers and reviews have appeared in various edited volumes and the academic journals Ciberletras, Centro Journal, The Black Scholar, Revista Iberoamericana, Chasqui. Revista de literatura latinoamericana, Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism, Cuadernos de literatura, Estudios Sociales, and Review: Literature and Arts of the Americas. She was a Dominican Studies Fellow (2016-2017), Lilly Teaching Fellow (2019-2021), Willson Center for the Humanities Fellow (2020-2021), and UGA Teaching Academy Fellow (2022-2023).

In 2021, she received the Sandy Beaver Excellence in Teaching Award at the University of Georgia. Recently, she was awarded the Consortium of Latin American Studies Programs (CLASP) 2025 Faculty Teaching Award. She is the author of Bridging Sonic Borders. Popular Music in Contemporary Dominican/Dominicanyork Literature (University of Texas Press, 2025). She is the co-editor of the volume Embodiment and Representations of Beauty with Dr. Esther Hernández Medina for the series Advances in Gender Research (September 2024),  “Latines in the U.S. South: Disrupting Historical Erasure and Master Narratives” with Oscar Jiménez-Castellanos (University of Georgia) and Yami Rodríguez (Emory University), a special issue in The Journal of Latino/Latin American Studies (JOLLAS) forthcoming in 2026, and “The Josefina Báez’s Papers” with Frances Negrón-Muntaner, a special issue in Chiricú Journal: Latina/o Literatures, Arts, and Cultures forthcoming in 2026. She served as secretary/treasurer for the Latino Studies Section (2018-2020) and is currently serving as co-chair for the LASA Haiti/DR section (2024-2027) of the Latin American Studies Association.