Biography

Andrea Morales Loucil is a cultural historian and literary scholar from Aguadilla, Puerto Rico. She is a Gates-Cambridge Scholarship recipient pursuing a Ph.D. in Latin American Studies at King's College, University of Cambridge. Her dissertation examines the production of revolutionary poetics in the nineteenth-century Hispanophone Caribbean. Moreover, her work emphasises how revolutionaries of African descent in Cuba and Puerto Rico used literature to advocate for abolition, organise toward independence, and forge bonds of Afro-diasporic resistance. Andrea’s research broadens how Cuban and Puerto Rican conceptualisations of 'race' affect contemporary understandings of historical narratives, literary movements, and nation-building processes in the Caribbean and Latin America.