Raj Chetty is assistant professor of English at St. John’s University in Queens, NY, specializing in Caribbean literature across English, Spanish, and French languages, with a focus on black and African diaspora. His current project centers on black recognition, principally as theorized by Frantz Fanon, to study the articulations between Dominican literary and expressive arts in the post-Trujillo period and conceptualizations of black and African diaspora. With Amaury Rodríguez, he is the co-editor of a special issue of The Black Scholar on “Dominican Black Studies” (2015), and his work has appeared in Callaloo,Anthurium, Palimpsest: A Journal on Women, Gender, and the Black International, and Afro-Hispanic Review.
