Anastasia M. Valecce is Associate Professor of Caribbean Literatures at the Department of World Literatures at Spelman College. She specializes in film, literature and performance in contemporary Caribbean cultures with decolonial feminist and critical race theory analysis. She is the author of Neorrealismo y cine en Cuba: historia y discurso entorno a la primera polémica de la revolución” (1951-1962) [Neorealism and Cinema in Cuba: History and Discourse on the First Polemic of the Revolution (1951-1962)]. Her forthcoming book, Mujeres Desobedientes: Cultural and Artistic Movements of Afro Queer Puerto Rican Women (2013–2023) an analysis of queer-feminist decolonial performance in contemporary Puerto Rico, is under contract with U of Florida Press.