Sarah Soanirina Ohmer

Sarah Soanirina Ohmer joined the LALPRS department at Lehman College as Assistant Professor and Fulbright Scholar in Fall 2015. She was previously an Assistant Professor at the University of Indianapolis (2011-2015). She received her Ph.D. in Latin American Culture and Literature from the University of Pittsburgh, with a concentration in Cultural Studies and Doctoral Certificate in Latin American Studies (2012). Dr Ohmer specializes in gender and race in Latin American literature and society, cultural theory, postcolonialism, and trauma.  This year, she joined the Editorial Board of the Women’s Studies Quarterly Editorial Board. Dr Ohmer’s research focuses on the intersection of gender, race and trauma in literature by Black Women from Cuba, Brazil, and the US African American and Afro-Latino women. Her interdisciplinary training includes trauma studies, critical ethnic studies, literary analysis and cultural studies.Sarah Soanirina Ohmer is Franco-Malagasy, born in France with roots in Madagascar. She speaks French, English, Spanish and Portuguese. The Fulbright Fellowship enabled her to work on her book manuscript, Keloids of Modernity: Trauma, Race and Gender in Black Women’s Literature. Dr. Ohmer dedicates her work to bridging the personal with the theoretical, in her research, classroom and in life!