Cristovão is a fifth-year PhD candidate in English at the University of Florida. He obtained his B.A. in Portuguese and English language and literatures in 2017 from the Federal University of Bahia, in Brazil. His doctoral research explores the representations of Black African immigrants in contemporary African novels that take place in the U.S. and Europe, and the impacts of racialization and trauma in African family units.
His forthcoming publications include “The Underbelly of the American Dream: Feeding, Eating, and Starving for Love in Toni Morrison’s Beloved”, “The “Right” Sort of Black: Pigmentocracy in Wallace Thurman’s The Blacker the Berry”, and “Where Do We Belong? Glocal Blackness and The Family Unit in Diasporic African Literatures.”
He is the recipient of the National Humanities’ 2020 virtual winter residency, UF’s Graduate Student Teaching Award, and Imagining America’s 2022-2023 PAGE fellowship.
Since 2018, he has served as one of the reviewers for African Studies Quarterly and is the 2022-223 Vice President of the English Graduate Organization.
Courses taught: Introduction to Literature, Writing Through Media: My Family, My Community: Where Do I Belong?, World Literature- 17th Century to Modern, Writing Through Media: Images of Africa , and Writing about Immigrant Experiences.
Fields of Study:
- African Literatures
- African Diaspora Studies
- Postcolonial Studies
- Decolonial Studies
Contact:
UF email: cristova.nwachuk@ufl.edu