Eliana Vagalau

Eliana Vagalau is doctoral student in French and Italian. She received her B.A. in French Culture from the Colorado College (2003) and her M.A. in Romance Languages and Literatures from the University of Oregon (2005). During college she spent a summer in Paris studying the Japanese artistic diaspora, a term in Avignon at the Institute for American Universities and one in Florence with the ACM program. She has also taught on-site Italian language courses for two summers with the Colorado College and University of Oregon programs in Sorrento and Perugia, Italy. Her current interests include literary and cultural studies, with a focus on the Caribbean and West Africa. She has presented papers on Glissant, Rushdie and Ousmane at two conferences and is developing an interest in issues of sexuality in relation to migration, exile and multiculturalism.