Florencia V. Cornet holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature with specialization in Comparative Black Gender Studies, Black Diaspora Studies, and Cultural Studies. She is the Faculty for Intercultural Inclusion and Diversity Learning in the Opportunity Scholars Program and coordinates the Opportunity Scholars’ MIWIL Center, and the Opportunity Scholars’ Cultural Enrichment Component at the University of South Carolina. Dr. Cornet is also an associate faculty of Latin American Studies, and an affiliate faculty of African American Studies, and Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of South Carolina. Her areas of teaching publishing, and research specialization include Latin American, Caribbean and US Afro-Latino/a Cultures; Gender Studies in Global Perspective; and Studies in Global Blackness. Some of Dr. Cornet’s publications appeared in the following journals: Dutch Crossing: Journal of Low Countries Studies; Palimpsest: A Journal on Women, Gender, and the Black International; Dictionary of Caribbean and Afro Latin American Biography; and Wagadu: A Journal of Transnational Women’s and Gender Studies; Africology: The Journal of Pan African Studies. She is currently working on two books: Dutch Caribbean Performativity and Genealogies and Visibility of Afro-Dutch Caribbean Women.