Danielle Roper specializes in contemporary racial and queer performance, racial formation, feminist activism, and visual culture in the Hemispheric Americas. Her work on Caribbean feminism, mestizaje, queer art, and racial impersonation has appeared in Latin American Research Review, SmallAxe, GLQ (forthcoming), and elsewhere. Roper is the curator of the virtual exhibition Visualizing/Performing Blackness in the Afterlives of Slavery: A Caribbean Archive. In her book manuscript, tentatively titled Hemispheric Blackface: Impersonation and Racial Formation in the Americas, she develops the concept of hemispheric blackface to name a network of impersonation in the Americas and to uncover the function of blackface performance in societies organized around discourses of racial democracy and creole nationalism. Roper holds a PhD in Spanish and Portuguese (2015) and an MA in Performance Studies (2009) from New York University.

To learn more about Danielle Roper's research and publications, please see her profile page at the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures.