Karla Zelaya, Ph.D.
| Institution | Degree | Year |
| State University of New York, College at Cortland | B.A. English | 1999 |
| University of Massachusetts, Amherst | M.A. English | 2001 |
| University of Massachusetts, Amherst | M.A. Afro-American Studies | 2006 |
| University of Massachusetts, Amherst | Ph.D. Afro-American Studies | 2015 |
Research and Teaching Fields:
Eighteenth-century and nineteenth-century Black literature, Contemporary Black Literature, Black Atlantic Literature (Afro-Latinx and Caribbean Literature), Black women's slave and neo-slave narratives, Phillis Wheatley, Nicaragua in the U.S. Black Imagination
Courses Taught:
- EN 221: American Literature through Whitman
- EN 222: American Literature from Whitman to the Present
- EN 232: Literature of the World II
- EN 405/505: African-American Literature
- EN 491W: Senior Seminar
- EN 497: Selected Topics in American Literature