{"id":13099,"date":"2026-08-01T13:59:58","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T18:59:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/latin-american-caribbean-studies\/?p=13099"},"modified":"2026-08-05T12:38:38","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T17:38:38","slug":"english-graduate-student-presents-research-on-caribbean-literature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/latin-american-caribbean-studies\/english-graduate-student-presents-research-on-caribbean-literature\/","title":{"rendered":"English Graduate Student Presents Research on Caribbean Literature"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With support from CLACS, UWM PhD candidate Kimathi Muthee recently presented his research at the 25th Annual Africa Conference 2026, which took place in April at The University of Texas at Austin. He presented the paper &#8220;Migration, Multilingualism, and the Making of Transcultural Identity in Marlon James and Edwidge Danticat.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"alignright uwm-c-img--right uwm-c-img--caption-gray\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/latin-american-caribbean-studies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/329\/2026\/08\/Muthee-2026-presentation.jpg\" alt=\"Four scholars sit at a table; a man seated in the middle is speaking\" class=\"wp-image-13115\" \/><figcaption>Muthee, center, presents his work at the 25th Annual Africa Conference at the University of Texas at Austin.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Muthee, who is completing a doctorate in English literature and cultural theory, shared that the opportunity allowed him to receive crucial feedback on a key component of his dissertation research:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;As a doctoral candidate researching African and African diasporic literatures, opportunities to share my work in scholarly spaces are invaluable to my professional development. 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