Congratulations to two of our Professors in RLL: Danielle Roper has been promoted to the rank of Associate Professor with tenure and Pauline Goul has been reappointed for a second term as Assistant Professor, effective July 1, 2026.
Danielle Roper is Assistant Professor in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at the University of Chicago. She holds a Ph.D in Spanish and Portuguese and an MA in Performance Studies from New York University. Her work on racial and queer performance, feminist activism, and racial formation in contemporary Latin America and the Caribbean has appeared in GLQ, Latin American Research Review, and Small Axe. Her first book Hemispheric Blackface: Impersonation and Nationalist Fictions in the Americas was written with the support of the Neubauer Family Assistant Fellowship and is forthcoming with Duke University Press (May 2025). Read her full profile.
Pauline Goul works on early modern French literature and environmental criticism, and in particular on the many ways early modern texts represent, already, concerns about sustainability, and the increasing weight being put on the environment by human appetites. She is interested in the special role and power of literature to formulate, complicate and unsettle what we think our relationship with the environment—and with each other—is. Read her full profile.