Unita is a graduate of the University of Toronto’s Honours B.A. and M.A. programs in English literature, specializing in British Romanticism, Middle Eastern studies, and postcolonial studies. She is currently a candidate for the Ph.D. in English literature at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her areas of interest include travel, migrancy, women’s writing, and mobility studies in eighteenth and nineteenth-century British literary history—particularly in the relationship between depictions of historical voyages between England and the Middle East and their contrapuntal literary depictions.

With an aim to continue expanding an understanding of the interwoven layers of decolonial and postcolonial studies, Unita has been working on several initiatives of the Global Latinidades Project, including participating in the UC-HBCU summer grant writing team, a research project on Spain in the Latinx imagination, as well as a part of the grant writing team for the Global Latinidades MRPI Grant application. Unita hopes to continue pursuing avenues of research that would intersect with her specialized areas in historical postcolonial studies in the middle east, as well as open up to a globalized arena that would examine historical travel and dialogue between colonial borderlands. Most recently, Unita has been working on the Voces Nuevas initiative with the Global Latinidades project, which is an NEA-funded authors series that brings up-and-coming Latinx authors to the UCSB campus.