Rate My Professor Martinez Reyes

Martínez Reyes's research centers on representations of gender, sexuality, and national sentiments in Hispanic Caribbean literature and cinema, particularly across Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Dominican Republic in the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Her interests include the historical invisibility of lesbianism in regional literary and cinematic histories, symbolic or silenced portrayals of alternative female sexualities, the formation of a lesbian literary and filmic canon, affective decolonization through female leadership and emotional bonds in national discourses, decolonial thought in contemporary Puerto Rican literature addressing erased histories, intersections of politics and sexuality, feminist theory, polyamory, and female activism within neocolonial contexts. Key publications encompass her monograph Queer Women in the Hispanic Caribbean (Palgrave Macmillan, 2025); Not the Time to Stay: The Unpublished Plays of Víctor Fragoso, which she edited and translated (Centro Press, 2018); the short story collection En blanco (La Pereza, 2018), published in English as Blank Canvases (Lazy Press, 2021); 'From alienation to revolution: female characters as decolonial tools in J.L. Torres's The Accidental Native' (Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos, 2024); 'Crónica de Centeno' (Caribe: Revista de cultura y literatura, 2022); and 'Prodigal Daughters: Portraying Lesbians in Hispanic Caribbean Cinema' (Journal of Lesbian Studies, 2012). She chairs the board of Caribbean Conjunctures: The Caribbean Studies Association Journal (2021–present) and has presented on topics including 'Combative Kissing, Combative Twerking: Community and Affect in Puerto Rican Politics' (2021) and 'Paisajes lésbicos puertorriqueños' (2021).