Carmen Cosme

Carmen Cosme, also named Carmen Luz Cosme Puntiel, is an Assistant Professor of Spanish and Afro-Latin American and Caribbean Studies at Xavier University of Louisiana. Her research examines the intellectual and political lives of enslaved and free people of African descent in nineteenth-century colonial Cuba. She was a 2023 Scholarly Retreat resident at A Studio in the Woods, where she worked on a Spanish-language short-story collection about young people of African ancestry in the Americas.