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Keja Valens received her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Harvard University in 2004. She has been at Salem State University since 2005 where she is currently Professor of English.

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Keja Valens received her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Harvard University in 2004. She has been at Salem State University since 2005 where she is currently Professor of English.

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Arts and Humanities

Caribbean literature, literatures of the Americas, American Ethnic literatures, feminisms, literary and queer theory, and food writing

Keja Valens, SSU Directory

Querying Consent: Beyond Permission and Refusal

Keja L. Valens and Jordana Greenblatt

Querying Consent examines the ways in which the concept of consent is used to map and regulate sexual desire, gender ...

The Barbara Johnson Reader: The Surprise of Otherness

Keja L. Valens, Melissa Feuerstein, Bill Johnson González and Lili Porten

This Reader collects in a single volume some of the most influential essays written by Barbara Johnson over the course ...

Desire Between Women In Caribbean Literature

Relations between women - like the branches and roots of the mangrove - twist around, across, and within others as ...

Passing Lines: Sexuality And Immigration

Bradley S. Epps, Keja L. Valens and Bill Johnson González

Passing Lines seeks to stimulate dialogue on the role of sexuality and sexual orientation in immigration to the U.S. from ...

Contribution to Book

Excruciating Improbability And The Transgender Jamaican

Trans Studies: The Challenge To Hetero/Homo Normativities (2016)

From Caitlyn Jenner to Laverne Cox, transgender people have rapidly gained public visibility, contesting many basic assumptions about what gender ...

Contribution to Book

Afro-Caribbean Ghosts, Afro-Caribbean Demons, and Afro-Caribbean Witches

The Ashgate Encyclopedia Of Literary And Cinematic Monsters (2014)

From vampires and demons to ghosts and zombies, interest in monsters in literature, film, and popular culture has never been ...

Contribution to Book

Recipes For National Culture In Guadeloupe And Martinique

Transcultural Roots Uprising: The Rhizomatic Languages, Literatures And Cultures Of The Caribbean (2013)

This book, Transcultural Roots Uprising: The Rhizomatic languages, literatures, and cultures of the Caribbean, is a collection of articles that ...

Review of Queer Rebellion In The Novels Of Michelle Cliff ...

SQS – Suomen Queer-tutkimuksen Seuran lehti (2018)

Kaisa Ilmonen’s Queer Rebellion in the Novels of Michelle Cliff opens slowly, with the first two chapters presenting introductions to ...

Review of Enterprising Women: Gender, Race, And Power In The ...

Journal of Transatlantic Studies (2016)

Free women of colour in the Southern Caribbean in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries succeeded not only as ‘madams or ...

Review of The Tropics Bite Back: Culinary Coups In Caribbean ...

Caribbean Vistas (2015)

Both sweeping and incisive, Valérie Loichot's The Tropics Bite Back: Culinary Coups in the Caribbean examines cannibalism alongside creolization as ...

Review of Thiefing Sugar: Eroticism Between Women In Caribbean Literature ...

Caribbean Vistas (2014)

The cultural and literary production of women-loving-women reconfigure Caribbean metaphorics. As the title suggests, Omise’eke Natasha Tinsley’s Thiefing Sugar finds ...

Review of Queer Ricans: Cultures And Sexualities In The Diaspora ...

Caribbean Vistas (2013)

At the forefront of Caribbean, Latino, and queer studies, Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes’s Queer Ricans examines literary, visual, and performance work ...

Articles (4)

African American Review (2013)

Keja L. Valens and J. D. Scrimgeour

In the early days of the 2008 Democratic primaries, during the January 5 debate in New Hampshire, Barack Obama was ...

The Love Of Neighbors: Rosario Ferré’s Eccentric Neighborhoods/Vecindarios ...

Contemporary Women's Writing (2012)

Rosario Ferré’s position in one of Puerto Rico’s most important families and her status as one of the island’s most ...

Audre Lorde And Paule Marshall's Queer Histories Of The ...

La Torre: Revista de la Universidad de Puerto Rico (2005)

Obvious And Ordinary: Desire Between Girls In Jamaica Kincaid's ...

Frontiers: A Journal Of Women Studies (2004)

The Antiguan girl narrator in Jamaica Kincaid's 1985 novella, Annie John, announces her love for other girls and her plans ...