Rosita Scerbo is an Assistant Professor of Afro-Latix Studies in the Institute for Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and the Department of World Languages and Cultures at Georgia State University. She is also an affiliate faculty in the Department of Africana Studies. Her research interests include Afro-Latinx/Diasporic Literature & Culture, the Black Woman’s Experience in the Hispanic World, Intersectional and Transnational Feminism, Queer and Decolonial Theories, Race, Ethnicity, and Social Movements in Latin America, Visual Culture, and Digital Humanities. She obtained her Ph.D. in Latin American/Latinx Visual Studies from Arizona State University. She has lived and worked as an educator in different countries, including Buenos Aires (Argentina), Yucatán (Mexico), Sevilla (Spain), and Calabria (Italy). Through her teaching, mentoring, service, and research she advocates for ethnic minoritized groups and other underrepresented communities in the U.S. and Latin America. Her latest publications and teaching endeavors focus on Intersectional and Transnational ARTivism and the Cultural Aesthetics of Black Latina Women.

Dr. Scerbo is the author of the book LATINAS ON THE MARGINS. QueerARTivism and TRANSdisciplinarity: Towards a Politicization of the Visual Autobiography of Invisible Women published by Peter Lang in 2021. She is also the co-editor and author of the book AfroLatinas and LatiNegras: Culture, Identity, and Struggle from an Intersectional Perspective., published by Lexington Books in the series Critical Africana Studies in 2022. In addition, Dr. Scerbo is currently working on a third book project tentatively titled Gendered Aesthetics of Blackness: The Afrodescendant Woman in Latin American Diasporic Visual Art.

Dr. Bermúdez, a Principal Lecturer in the World Languages and Cultures Department is the founding faculty advisor for Sigma Lambda Upsilon/Senoritas Latinas Unidas, and was selected as Advisor of the Year in the university’s 2017 and 2018 Greek Awards. She has served as a faculty mentor through the Multicultural Center and has served as a longstanding faculty advisor for Goizueta Scholars candidates. She was the recipient of the Faculty Diversity Award in 2018 because of her mentoring work of underrepresented students. Recently her work is directed towards the mentoring of non-tenure track (NTT) faculty.