Lydia Millhon is a PhD student in Hispanic Languages and Literatures UC Berkeley. She completed her M.A. in Latin American Studies from the Center for Latin American Studies at Georgetown University and received her B.A. with Honors in Spanish at Wake Forest University. Interested in abstraction and concretism in the literature and visual art of Cuba and Brazil in the mid-twentieth century, her research considers how concrete art appears in poetry and painting as a potential vehicle for transnational discourses of modernity, racial democracy, and artistic and literary trends.
