

Trent Masiki is an Assistant Professor of Africana Studies at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. His research focuses on the social, historical, and intercultural ties that bind African Americans to other communities of African descent in the US, Africa, and the African diaspora. Masiki’s scholarly articles appear in the journals Latino Studies, MELUS, African American Review, and College Language Association, among others. He was a co-guest editor of “Post-Soul Afro-Latinidades,” a special issue of The Black Scholar 52.1. The Afro-Latino Memoir: Race, Ethnicity, and Literary Interculturalism (UNC Press 2023), Masiki’s first book, examines African American cultural, political, and literary influences in Afro-Latino memoirs published after the advent of the Black Arts Movement.
Scholarly Work
“'Any place is better than here': Afro-Zionism in the Science Fiction of Ray Bradbury and Derrick Bell." College Language Association Journal 63.1 2020
“Ambiguous Seductions: Doppelgangers, Suciogenesis, and the Mask of Tíguerismo in Junot Díaz’s ‘Drown’ and ‘Miss Lora.’” MELUS 43.4 2018
“The Satyr, the Goddess, and the Oriental Cast: Subversive Classicism in Charles W. Chesnutt’s ‘The Goophered Grapevine’ and ‘Po' Sandy.’” African American Review 49.4 2016
National Endowment for the Humanities
Amherst College
Boston University Arts Initiative | Office of the Provost
Kilachand Honors College | Boston University
University of Massachusetts-Amherst
Department of English | Universidad Autónoma de Chiriquí in Panama