Professor Ellis Neyra writes in the fields of Caribbean, African diaspora, and U.S. Latinx studies of aesthetics, focusing especially on poetry, music, cinema, and literary theory. Ellis Neyra is as interested in the possibilities for thought that emerge between aesthetic and literary forms and critical and literary theory as in zones of impossibility, negativity, impasses, and ethical quandaries. Ellis Neyra has additional interests in deconstruction, Third Cinema, Cine Imperfecto, ethics of reading, and translation. At Wesleyan, Ellis Neyra is the Coordinator of the Social, Cultural, and Critical Theory Certificate: https://www.wesleyan.edu/theory/about.html.

Ellis Neyra is the author of The Cry of the Senses: Listening to Latinx and Caribbean Poetics (Duke University Press, 2020). Some recent work includes: "White Mythologies" (Small Axe Journal); "The Question of Ethics in the Semiotics of Brownness" (sx salon); and an interview with Black Agenda Report's Book Forum editor.

Three new book projects are underway: one tentatively titled "Re-reading: The Violence of Relation"; another about the Kardashians, the Bobbitts, and domesticity; and a third project about the long history of sovereignty in Caribbean literature. As a writer, Ellis Neyra thinks in the genres (and temporalities) of critical, scholarly essays, as well as art reviews, and poetry, and has published work with: Small Axe Journal; sx salon; Radical History Review; Public Books; Habana Elegante; La Gaceta de Cuba; Sargasso: A Journal of Caribbean Literature, Language and Culture; Journal of Popular Music Studies; The Cambridge Companion to Queer Studies; ASAP/Journal; ARTFORUM; BOMB magazine; Obsidian: Literature and Arts in the African Diaspora. Ellis Neyra published their debut book of poetry, Meteor Shower/ Días Sin Shower (2017), and a co-edited, collaborative volume, Caribbean Cautionary Tales (2017), with La Impresora Press, San Juan, Puerto Rico.