Rebeca Hey-Colón
Research Fellow — Ph.D., Harvard University
CMAS Carlos E. Castañeda Postdoctoral Fellow
Contact
- E-mail: rheycolon@austin.utexas.edu
- Phone: 512-471-2452
- Office: GWB 2.312
- Campus Mail Code: F9200
Interests
Latinx Studies; Caribbean Studies; Border Studies; Spirituality; Gender Studies
Biography
Rebeca L. Hey-Colón is Assistant Professor of Spanish at Colby College, where she teaches Caribbean and Latinx Studies. She holds a BA in Comparative Literature from Haverford College and a Ph.D. in Romance Languages from Harvard University. Hey-Colón's research establishes connections between the Caribbean diaspora, Chicanx communities, and broader Latinx Studies by analyzing the presence of water. Her current book project, Rippling Borders in Latina Literature, explores the relationship between water, borders, bodies, and spirituality in Chicana and Caribbean Latina authors. Her work is forthcoming in Latino Studies, Small Axe, and the edited collection The Image of the River in Latin/o American Literature.
