Anne “Annie” Margaret Castro studies literature using comparative and interdisciplinary frameworks attuned to politics, religion, and performance. She researches Postcolonial, Caribbean, Afro-Diasporic, Hemispheric American, and World Literature.

Annie’s first monograph, The Sacred Act of Reading: Spirituality, Performance, and Power in Afro-Diasporic Literature was published with University of Virginia’s New World Press. She has had articles published in Religion and Literature, Journal of West Indian Literature, and Afro-Hispanic Review, and she has a chapter in-press for the edited publication New Directions in the Ghost Story published by Palgrave Macmillan.

Annie received her PhD in English from Vanderbilt University and a B.A. in both English and Spanish from the University of Texas, Austin. She was an Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Oxford, where she held a position with the Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages and taught with the Faculty of English. Annie is currently an Associate Professor Postcolonial Literature in the English Department at Florida International University.