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).