Matthew Pettway is assistant professor of Spanish at University of South Alabama. Pettway has published articles in PALARA (Publication of the Afro-Latin/American Research Association), Zora Neale Hurston Forum, American Studies Journal, and Del Caribe in addition to entries in The Dictionary of Caribbean and Afro-Latin American Biography. He also contributed the inaugural essay to the volume Black Writing, Culture, and the State in Latin America.
