Vallerie Matos / English
Graduate Student Researcher
Started at the NML: December 2024vmatos@gradcenter.cuny.edu
Vallerie Matos is a writer from New York City. She is an English PhD Candidate at the CUNY Graduate Center with research interests in Sound Studies, Glossolalia, and Afro-diasporic literature and epistemologies. Vallerie is an Adjunct Professor in both the English and Black & Latinx Studies departments at Baruch College. She holds an MA in literature from Hunter College and a BS from New York University. Vallerie currently serves as Associate Director for Black & Latinx Publics at Baruch and the Mellon Foundation. Prior to CUNY, she was a Program Director for an arts and social justice youth development program for 5 years. Vallerie is also a Literary Fellow with VONA Voices, Screenwriting Fellow with Lambda Literary, Research Fellow with The Center of the Humanities’ Lost & Found archival initiative, and Dissertation Fellow with The Institute for Research on the African Diaspora in the Americas and the Caribbean.