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Research Summary

Anne Garland Mahler is Associate Professor of Spanish and affiliated faculty in Latin American studies and in the Carter G. Woodson Institute for African American and African studies. She is an interdisciplinary scholar focused on South-South political and cultural movements, particularly among Latin American, Caribbean, African American, and U.S. Latinx artists, activists, and writers. Her research draws on the fields of cultural studies, history, and critical theory of racial capitalism and globalization. She holds a PhD from Emory University (2013), and her work has been supported by the American Council of Learned Societies, Ford Foundation, and Mellon Foundation. Mahler frequently gives lectures internationally and contributes to podcasts, magazines and periodicals, like Vogue Japan, The Washington Post, l'Humanité, New Books Network, Black Agenda Report, and Revista Común (Mexico City). Her work has inspired exhibits in Dresden, Germany, New York City, Chicago, Charlottesville, and Torrance, California.

Mahler is author of From the Tricontinental to the Global South: Race, Radicalism, and Transnational Solidarity (Duke, 2018), which has been reviewed more than twenty times in a range of interdisciplinary venues. She is also co-editor of The Comintern and the Global South: Global Designs/Local Encounters (Routledge, 2022). She has two books in progress: A Wide Net of Solidarity: Anti-Racism and Anti-Imperialism from the Americas to the Globe (Duke UP, forthcoming 2025) and The Oxford Handbook of the History of the Global South (forthcoming 2026).

Mahler has done significant work to support the foundation and growth of the interdisciplinary field of Global South studies. She is creator and director of Global South Studies; author of "Global South" for Oxford Bibliographies in Literary and Critical Theory; guest editor, with Magalí Armillas-Tiseyra, of two special issues of CLS: Comparative Literature Studies on "New Critical Directions in Global South Studies"; and co-editor of a special issue of the journal The Global South. She was also a founding executive committee member of the Global South forum of the Modern Languages Association.

Mahler serves as co-coordinator of UVA's Interdisciplinary Doctoral Fellowship in Caribbean Literatures, Arts, and Cultures. She serves on the editorial boards of Latin American Literary Review, Modern Fiction Studies, Pacha: Revista de Estudios Contemporáneos del Sur Global, The Global Sixties: An Interdisciplinary Journal, and the Afro-Latin American Writers in Translation series.

For more on her publications, interviews, and public scholarship, visit: https://annegarlandmahler.com