Claudia Milian is Professor of Romance Studies at Duke University. A theorist of LatinX contemporaneity, she is the author of LatinX (University of Minnesota Press, 2019) and Latining America: Black-Brown Passages and the Coloring of Latino/a Studies (University of Georgia Press, 2013). Milian has published numerous articles and book chapters on LatinX creative practices and sociality; deracination, migration, and transnationalism; and cultural studies. She is the editor of two special issues of Cultural Dynamics centered on “Theorizing LatinX” (August 2017) and “LatinX Studies: Variations and Velocities” (February-May 2019); and co-editor of the special volumes “Transatlantic LatinX Studies, Iberian Studies, and The Global South” (Cultural Dynamics, February-May 2024); “US Central Americans: Representations, Agency, and Communities” for (Latino Studies, Fall 2013) and “Interoceanic Diasporas and The Panama Canal’s Centennial” (The Global South, Fall 2012).

Claudia Milian


Claudia Milian es Profesora de Estudios Romances en Duke University. Es teórica de la contemporaneidad LatinX y autora de LatinX (University of Minnesota Press, 2019) y Latining America: Black-Brown Passages and the Coloring of Latino/a Studies (University of Georgia Press, 2013). Milian ha publicado numerosos artículos y capítulos de libros sobre las prácticas creativas y la sociabilidad LatinX; el desarraigo, la migración y el transnacionalismo; y los estudios culturales. Es editora de dos números especiales de la revista Cultural Dynamics centrados en “LatinX Studies: Variations and Velocities” (febrero-mayo de 2019) y “Theorizing LatinX” (agosto de 2017). Es co-editora de volúmenes especiales como “Transatlantic LatinX Studies, Iberian Studies, and The Global South” (Cultural Dynamics, febrero-mayo de 2024); “US Central Americans: Representations, Agency, and Communities” for Latino Studies, (otoño de 2013) e “Interoceanic Diasporas and The Panama Canal’s Centennial” (The Global South, otoño de 2012).