Michael Reyes Salas

Michael Reyes Salas is Assistant Professor of Critical Carceral Studies. His teaching and research interests focus on Caribbean literature, French and Francophone studies, cultures of urban modernity, and visuality of imprisonment. His language areas are French, Spanish, and Portuguese. His writing is forthcoming in the CENTRO Journal, and appears in Dalhousie French Studies, Asymptote, Ethnic and Third World Literature’s Review of Books, El Mundo Zurdo, Los Angeles Times, The Atlantic, and El Salto. Before joining Vassar College, Michael held postdoctoral fellowships at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the University of Texas at Austin—where he earned a PhD in Comparative Literature in 2020.