Dr. Jhoanna M. Méndez

Dr. Jhoanna M. Méndez

Assistant Professor

Spanish

Dr. Jhoanna M. Méndez (Ph.D. Florida State University) is an Assistant Professor of Spanish at The Citadel. She is the Advisor to both Sigma Delta Pi (the National Collegiate Hispanic Honor Society) and the Spanish Club.

Dr. Méndez’s research interests include 20th & 21st-century U.S. Latina/o/x literary and cultural production, Caribbean and Dominican Studies, Diaspora Studies, postcolonial, transnational, and performance studies, and heritage language acquisition. Her current work examines Afro-Dominicanness, the pathologization of femininity, and self-fashioning. Her work has appeared in Studies in American Culture.

Degrees

Ph.D. Hispanic Literary and Cultural Studies (Florida State University)
M.A. Hispanic Literary and Cultural Studies (Florida State University)
B.A. Psychology & Hispanic Literary and Cultural Studies (Florida State University)