Anaridia R. Molina (She/her) is a writer, scholar, and educator born in the Dominican Republic and raised in Santo Domingo, D.R., and Brooklyn, New York. She is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of English Language and Literature and a Rackham Merit Fellow at the University of Michigan (U-M). Her research interests are Caribbean Literature, U.S. Latina/o/x Literature, Digital Humanities, Postcolonial and Decolonial Theory, and Women's Studies. Anaridia is currently working on a dissertation that examines how new digital modes are restructuring Caribbean literary histories and conventions.
She is the Principal Investigator and curator of The ACWWS’ Digital Archive, an ongoing project aimed at conserving the Association of Caribbean Women Writers and Scholars (ACWWS)’s institutional memory, recording the influence of the cross-cultural connection between scholars, writers, and artists of the Caribbean, and displaying the scholarly and creative works of the diverse, multi-layered, and storied Caribbean communities. This project has received generous support from the Caribbean Digital Scholarship Collective micro-grant and the Rackham Graduate Student Research Grant. In addition, Anaridia has presented her research at 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 undergraduate first-year writing and Caribbean literature courses at the University of Michigan. 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 and certificates in Latin American and Caribbean Studies and Women’s and Gender Studies 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. As an HSI Pathways Fellow, she published “Establishing a Fixed Home: The Attempt at Identity Completion in Julia Alvarez’s ‘Antojos’ and Ana Menéndez’s ‘Her Mother’s House’” in Pathways: A Journal of Humanistic and Social Inquiry.
Currently, she is the digital archivist 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
