Writing
I write essays about novels, plays, audiobooks, podcasts, and TV shows. I'm always thinking about how the stories we tell, read, watch, and hear shape us and the world around us. If you would like access to any of my publications or if you have questions about my research or teaching, contact me at ancastro@fiu.edu
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Academic Writing
Book
The Sacred Act of Reading: Spirituality, Performance, and Power in Afro-Diasporic Literature, University of Virginia Press, New World Series, 2020. Read more
Articles
“Performing Love and Imagining Grace in the Print and Audio Editions of Toni Morrison’s Beloved,” Religion and Literature, 56.1, Spring 2024. Read more
“Sounding Out Spirit Thievery in Erna Brodber’s Myal.” Journal of West Indian Literature, 23.1/2, November 2015. Read more
“Caribbean Collusion: Junot Díaz, Edwidge Danticat, and the New Yorker Fiction Podcast.” Afro-Hispanic Review, 32.2, Fall 2013. Read more
Book Chapter
Forthcoming: “Ghosts, Duppies, and Colonial Violence in The White Witch of Rosehall,” chapter for Palgrave Handbook of the Ghost Story
Book Review
Review of Beyond Man: Race, Coloniality, and Philosophy of Religion, Ed. An Yountae and Eleanor Craig for American Academy of Religion’s “Reading Religion” Read more
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Popular Writing
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Why Heated Rivalry is the Perfect Adaptation of the Romance Novel’s Strict Conventions
Anne Margaret Castro on Jacob Tierney’s Masterful Translation of Rachel Reid’s Novel - Literary Hub