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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.CR Dean is an English doctoral student at the University of Florida where her research encompasses examining the evolution and evocation of caricature, stereotypes, representations, and the socio-political in 19th to 21st transatlantic literature. Her evolving dissertation project is rooted in examining the birth, evolution, and present state of mixed-race identity in literature and correspondingly, in the archives. She is a first-generation college graduate and earned her master’s degree from the University of Florida in 2025. When she’s not reading, you can find her making pottery, playing video games, or dragging her friends on long walks that she calls adventures.

Fields of Study:

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