Stacy A. Creech de Castro

I am an Afro-Dominican PhD Candidate and Teaching Fellow in the Department of English and Cultural Studies at McMaster University, and a Sessional Instructor for McMaster Intersession Learning. I specialize in Transatlantic literatures of the long eighteenth century and beyond, with a focus on Black Diaspora Literature and Theory. My areas of research and teaching include Black Studies, Caribbean Studies, Latin American and Latinx Studies, and Transatlantic Studies. My doctoral thesis is entitled "Reclaiming the Gothic: Black Transatlantic Networks in the Long Eighteenth Century" (Fall 2022 defence).

My academic and professional experience includes a Bachelor of Science degree in Pedagogy, with a Minor in Linguistics, a Master of Arts in English, as well as years designing courses and teaching at the secondary and post-secondary levels in the Caribbean, the United States, and Canada. Currently (McMaster U), I design and teach: a specialized fourth-year seminar, Even Stranger Things: The Early Gothic; a core departmental course, Reading and Writing Criticism; and interdisciplinary courses like Topics in the Black Caribbean and its Diasporas, and Introduction to Latin American and Latinx Studies. In the past, I have designed and taught courses like Writing About Literature (Canisius College), and College Writing I and College Writing II: Argumentation and Research (Buffalo State University of NY).