Alex Sastre-Rivera

Alex Sastre-Rivera, Ph.D., is a poet, student, and teacher from Utuado, Puerto Rico. He is the 2026 Zemurray Stone Postdoctoral Fellow in Latin American Studies at Tulane University. Dr. Sastre-Rivera earned his Ph.D. in Comparative Literature at Emory University, where he examined Caribbean cultural fields by using tourism as a framework to explore histories of colonialism, environmental catastrophes, and displacement. He majored in English Literature and received a certificate in Women and Gender studies from the University of Puerto Rico’s Río Piedras campus. As an undergraduate, he was a Mellon Mays Fellow and later served as a graduate mentor at Emory’s Mellon Mays Fellowship Program.

 

Prior to joining Tulane, he was a Dean’s Teaching Fellow at Emory University and a Rooted and Relational Dissertation Fellow at the Center for Puerto Rican Studies. His research, pedagogy, and community building are driven by his love of the arts, especially creative writing, a passion he has cultivated throughout his academic career. His first poetry book pequeñas catástrofes was published in March 2021 by La Impresora and his forthcoming poetry book titled maleza was acquired by the Puerto Rican press Semipermeable. In his free time, Alex enjoys reading multiple books simultaneously and drinking good coffee.