Ariana Costales-Del Toro

Caribbean Studies and Literature, Cultural Studies, Queer Studies, Race and Gender Dynamics, Women of Color Feminism, Decolonial Thought and Theory 

Email: costale4@msu.edu

Ariana Costales-Del Toro is a Ph.D. student in the English Department at Michigan State University. She holds a Bachelor’s Degree in English Literature and a Certificate in Women and Gender Studies from the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras campus. Her research interests revolve around Caribbean and queer studies with an emphasis on literature, family formation, and resistance. She is also interested in queer kinship and modes of survival.