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• Chelsea Jaylene Portorreal
• Graduate Student
• At Rutgers Since: 2024
• Primary Areas of Specialization: Carceral Studies, Visual Culture Studies, Black Feminism, 20th and 21st African American Literature, Intimacy/Kinship Studies, and Queer Theory.
• Field of Interest: African-American & Diaspora, Critical Race Studies, Gender & Sexuality, Twentieth Century, Twenty-first Century
• Education: Lehman College, CUNY - B.A in English Literature.