About
Anaridia R. Molina (She/her) is a PhD candidate in the Department of English Language and Literature and a Rackham Merit Fellow at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. As an interdisciplinary scholar and educator, she specializes in Caribbean and Latinx literature, digital humanities, postcolonial studies, and women’s studies. Her research has earned the 2026-2027 Rackham Humanities Research Fellowship-Dissertation Award.
Currently, she is working on a dissertation that examines how new digital modes are restructuring Caribbean and Latinx literature and conventions. Anaridia is the Principal Investigator of the ACWWS’ Digital Archive, an ongoing project aimed at preserving the institutional history of the Association of Caribbean Women Writers and Scholars (ACWWS) and documenting the influence of the cross-cultural connections among writers of the Caribbean. In this role, she has led archival curation, digitization, metadata development, and digital preservation efforts by collaborating with the Digital Library of the Caribbean (dLOC) to expand and preserve these materials within its digital repository. This project has received generous support from the Mellon-funded Caribbean Digital Scholarship Collective micro-grant and the Rackham Graduate Student Research Grant. In addition, Anaridia has presented her research at the Modern Language Association annual convention, the West Indian Literature Conference, the Caribbean Studies Association, the Latina/o/x Studies Association, the Caribbean Digital, the Caribbean Philosophical Association, and other conferences and forums.
As an educator, she has taught first-year undergraduate writing courses on Caribbean and Latinx literature and Caribbean Digital Spaces topics at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. In addition to her teaching experience, she has a background in writing center work and mentorship, the latter with the Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program at U-M, the Digital Ethnic Futures Consortium, supporting the development of a new course at the intersection of Caribbean Literature and Digital Humanities, and The Humanities Edge, a Mellon-funded program that supports college students in the humanities transfer from Miami Dade College to Florida International University.
She received her M.A. in English from the University of Michigan, an A.A. from Miami Dade College, and a B.A. in English from Florida International University, where she was awarded the Outstanding Academic Achievement Award from the College of Arts, Sciences, and Education and a Fellowship from the Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSI) Pathways to the Professoriate, supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
She serves as the Archivist on the Executive Board of the Association of Caribbean Women Writers and Scholars.
Anaridia welcomes research, pedagogical, digital, and community collaborations. The best way to reach her is through email: anaridia@umich.edu.
