Chassidy Simmons, a native of Mobile, Alabama, received her B.A. in Foreign Languages and Literatures with a concentration in Spanish from the University of South Alabama. For the gap-year between her undergraduate and master's studies, she taught English as a second language in Cuenca, Spain, with the Aprende Lenguas program at the Universidad de Castilla La-Mancha. Chassidy was awarded her M.A. in Hispanic Studies from Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge after completing her thesis, “Redefining the Image of the Afro Puerto Rican Woman in Recent Narrative by Mayra Santos-Febres.” Since receiving her M.A. she has taught Spanish in K-12 and undergraduate programs. Her research interests include Afro-Latinidad and the Africana Diasporic studies, social movements, postcolonial theory, and intersectionality theory.
