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C.R. Dean

Ph.D. Student

C.R. Dean smiles openly at the camera. She is wearing winged black eyeliner, glasses with black and rose gold metal rims, silver earrings that depict mushrooms and foliage, and a septum piercing. She also wears a light-colored tank top illustrated with the side profiles of Black women with different hairstyles.C.R. Dean is a first-generation doctoral student in the English Department at the University of Florida where her work encompasses extracting the representations, perceptions or stereotypes, and the effect of the socio-political alongside a psychological lens on Afro Americans, Indigenous, and women in transatlantic literature (American & Victorian). She is a first-generation college graduate of the Torrey Honors College at Biola University and deeply values the good, the true, and the beautiful. A transplanted California sunflower, C.R., is taking her sojourn in the South one day at a time exploring coffee and boba shops with her service dog when she’s not reading or at the pottery studio.

Fields of Study:

  • American Literature
  • African American Literature
  • Native American Literature
  • Victorian Literature