Biography

Anne Garland Mahler is an interdisciplinary scholar focused on South-South political and cultural movements, particularly among Latin American, African American, and U.S. Latinx writers. Her research draws on the fields of cultural studies, history, and critical theory of racial capitalism and globalization. An Associate Professor with a PhD in Latin American cultural studies (Emory University, 2013), her work has been supported by the American Council of Learned Societies, the Ford Foundation, and the Mellon Foundation.

Mahler is author of From the Tricontinental to the Global South: Race, Radicalism, and Transnational Solidarity (Duke, 2018), which has been reviewed more than twenty times in a wide range of interdisciplinary venues. She currently has three books in progress: She is co-editor of The Comintern and the Global South: Global Designs/Local Encounters (Routledge, forthcoming) and The Oxford Handbook of the History of the Global South (under contract); and her monograph in progress, South-South Solidarities: Racial Capitalism and Political Community from the Americas to the Globe, was supported by a 2020-21 ACLS Fellowship and has been committed to Duke UP.

Mahler has done significant work to support the growth of the interdisciplinary field of Global South studies. She is the creator and director of Global South Studies; author of "Global South" for Oxford Bibliographies in Literary and Critical Theory; guest editor, with Magalí Armillas-Tiseyra, of two special issues of CLS: Comparative Literature Studies on "New Critical Directions in Global South Studies"; and co-editor of a special issue of the journal The Global South. She was also a founding executive committee member of the Global South forum of the Modern Languages Association.

At UVA, Mahler serves as director of Global South Studies; co-coordinator of the Internationalism project with the Academy of Global Humanities and Critical Theory; co-coordinator for the Interdisciplinary Doctoral Fellowship in Caribbean Literatures, Arts, and Cultures; and as the director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion for her department.

For more on her publications, interviews, and public scholarship, visit: https://annegarlandmahler.com