Hailing from Miami, Florida and San Antonio, Texas,  Katerina Gonzalez Seligmann (they or she pronouns) is a second-generation immigrant of Cuban, Colombian, and Jewish descent. A writer, transdisciplinary scholar, and a translator, Seligmann holds a PhD in Comparative Literature from Brown University. In addition to teaching courses in Latin American, Caribbean, and U.S. Latinx Studies at UCONN, Seligmann is an affiliated researcher of the Aimé Césaire research group of the Francophone Manuscripts Team at the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris. Employed as an Assistant Professor at Emerson College from 2015-2021, they were awarded the Helaine and Stanley Miller prize for outstanding teaching in 2017. Seligmann’s research and writing has been supported by funding from the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship and Mellon Mays SSRC Graduate Program, the Ford Foundation, the Tinker Foundation, the Goizueta Foundation, and the Citizens and Scholars Institute.