Sharina Maíllo-Pozo is assistant professor of Latinx studies in the Department of Romance Languages at the University of Georgia. She specializes in Latinx and Caribbean literature and culture, with special attention to 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, Chasqui. Revista de literatura latinoamericana, and Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism, Cuadernos de literatura, Estudios Sociales, 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 was the recipient of the Sandy Beaver Excellence in Teaching Award at the University of Georgia. She is the author of Bridging Sonic Borders. Popular Music in Contemporary Dominican/Dominicanyork Literature (University of Texas Press, forthcoming in 2025). She co-edited the volume, Embodiment and Representations of Beauty with Dr. Esther Hernández Medina for the series Advances in Gender Research (forthcoming September 2024). 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 (2024-2026) of the Latin American Studies Association.
Of note, she is a Dominicanyork, Caribeña, Latina in Academia who is very committed to empowering women of color in academic and artistic spaces. Review on her talk on Women of Color in academia was featured in The New Paltz Oracle
Recently, she was featured in the article “I’m Proud to Break Barriers in My Latine Family. I’m Also Exhausted.” Refinery29. August 14. https://www.refinery29.com/en-us/exhaustion-first-latina-break-barriers
Currently, she is Co-Chair Haiti/Dominican Republic Studies Section of the Latin American Studies Association “LASA” (2024-2026). She has served as Modern Languages Assembly Delegate (2015-2018); Secretary/Treasurer for the Latino Studies section of the Latin American Studies Association “LASA” (2018-2020).
As part of the Latinx Heritage Month celebration, in fall 2018 she was featured The Red and Black:
Sharina Maíllo-Pozo 