Christina Civantos

Christina Civantos is Professor in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at the University of Miami, Florida. Her work on Hispanic and Arabic literary and cultural studies focuses on migration, empire, nationalisms, historical memory, South-South relations, and language ideologies. She is the author of Between Argentines and Arabs: Argentine Orientalism, Arab Immigrants, and the Writing of Identity (SUNY Press, 2006) and The Afterlife of al-Andalus: Muslim Iberia in Contemporary Arab and Hispanic Narratives (SUNY Press, 2017).