Amanda Perry

Dr. Amanda Perry specializes in Caribbean literature in English, French, and Spanish, with additional interest in the literatures of the Global South and the cultural politics of Montreal. She has published articles in Small Axe, The Global South, and The Journal of Early Modern Cultural Studies, alongside chapters in numerous collected volumes and a translation of Antón Arrufat's Los siete contra Tebas/The Seven Against Thebes in The Mercurian. Her book project, The Cuban Revolution in the Caribbean Imaginary: Race, Censorship, and Regionalism, is currently under consideration with University of Virginia Press. Her research has been funded by the Social Science Research Council, Social Science and Humanities Research Council, and the American Council of Learned Societies, among others.

In addition to scholarship, Perry is a frequent contributor to the magazine the Walrus and a contributing editor with the Literary Review of Canada, where she helps expand coverage of Quebec. She completed her PhD in Comparative Literature at New York University in 2018.