María DeGuzmán is Professor of English & Comparative Literature and founding Director of Latina/o Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Author of two books, Spain’s Long Shadow: The Black Legend, Off-Whiteness, and Anglo-American Empire (University of Minnesota Press, 2005) and Buenas Noches, American Culture: Latina/o Aesthetics of Night (Indiana University Press, 2012), she has a third book, on writer John Rechy, in production with the University of South Carolina Press.

She has published many essays and articles on Latina/o cultural production. She writes short stories and poetry. She is also a conceptual photographer who has shown in exhibitions locally, nationally, and internationally as well as a music composer and sound designer. See soundcloud.com/mariadeguzman.