TOMMY CONNERS
Assistant Professor of Latinx Studies and World Languages & Cultures Allegheny College
tconners@allegheny.edu
Ph.D. in Hispanic Studies, University of Pennsylvania, 2021
M.A. in Hispanic Studies, University of Pennsylvania, 2016
B.A. in Spanish (Teaching Option), Ithaca College, 2014
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Tommy Conners is Assistant Professor of Latinx Studies and World Languages & Cultures at Allegheny College. There, he specializes in Latinx literature and teaches on the languages and cultures of the Américas. During the 2023-2024 year, he is an Allegheny Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Faculty Fellow. He received his Ph.D. in Hispanic Studies from the University of Pennsylvania. His first book, Colorblind Aesthetics in Latinx Literature and Law, moves across legal and literary studies to argue that Latinx writing does what colorblind law refuses to do by apprehending race and indicting racism in the literary forms of queer narrative. His work has been supported by Sunlit: The Sue-Je Lee Gage Residency for Human Rights and Social Justice. Prior to Allegheny, Conners was lecturer of History & Literature and Women’s, Gender, & Sexuality Studies at Harvard University. There, he received the Jan Thaddeus Prize for Teaching Excellence in History & Literature and was voted one of Harvard College Class of ’23 Favorite Professors.
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