In collaboration with Georgia State University’s Department of Africana Studies (AS) and the Faculty of the African Diaspora (FADA) Organization, the Auburn Avenue Research Library will host Freedom School, a series of virtual lectures, facilitated by GSU faculty, dedicated to presenting premier Africana academic scholarship and research in an accessible public forum.

Rosita Scerbo is an Assistant Professor of Afro-Hispanic Studies in the Department of World Languages and Cultures at Georgia State University. Her research interests include Afro-Latinx/Diasporic Literature & Culture, the Black Woman’s Experience in the Hispanic World, Intersectional and Transnational Feminism, Queer Theory, Race, Ethnicity, and Social Movements in Latin America, Visual Culture, and Digital Humanities. She obtained her Ph.D. in Latin American/Latinx Visual Studies from Arizona State University. She has lived and worked as an educator in different countries, including Buenos Aires (Argentina), Yucatán (Mexico), Sevilla (Spain), and Calabria (Italy). Through her teaching, mentoring, service, and research she advocates for ethnic minoritized groups and other underrepresented communities in the U.S. and Latin America. Her latest publications and teaching endeavors focus on Intersectional and Transnational ARTivism and the Cultural Aesthetics of Black Latina Women.

Recorded on November 2022

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