Spanish Faculty at UTA

Sonja Watson
Assistant Professor of Spanish
Office: Hammond Hall 322
Office Phone: 817.272.5109
Fax: 817.272.5408
E-mail: swatson1@uta.edu

Dr. Sonja Stephenson Watson received her Ph.D. in Hispanic Literature from the University of Tennessee-Knoxville in 2005. Her areas of specialty are Contemporary Latin-American Literature, Hispanic Caribbean Literature, the Afro-Hispanic Historical Novel, and Afro-Hispanic Narrative. Dr. Watson has published articles in the College Language Association Journal and the Afro-Hispanic Review. Currently, she is working on her manuscript The Cultural Politics of Race in Afro-Panamanian Discourse which traces the development of literary blackness in Panama from the nineteenth-century to the present.