Danielle Roper

Danielle Roper is Assistant Professor in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at the University of Chicago. Her work on racial and queer performance, feminist activism, and racial formation in contemporary Latin America and the Caribbean has appeared in GLQ, Latin American Research Review, and Small Axe.  Her first book Hemispheric Blackface: Impersonation and Nationalist Fictions in the Americas is forthcoming with Duke University Press (May 2025).  Roper is the curator of the visual exhibit Visualizing/Performing Blackness in the Afterlives of Slavery: A Caribbean Archive. She is currently completing her second book Racial Reckoning: Black Performance and Visual Art in the Caribbean and its Diasporas.