Dara E. Goldman is a professor of Spanish at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), specializing in contemporary Latin American and Caribbean literatures and cultures. Her research and teaching focus on transnational cultures, gender, sexuality, and Jewish identity in the literature, films, music, art, and other expressive forms in the Spanish-speaking Caribbean and U.S. Caribbean communities. She is the director of the Program in Jewish Culture & Society at UIUC.