Halle Keane

Halle Keane is a doctoral student in the Department of Spanish & Portuguese. She examines how marginalized, non-normative subjects in 20th-century Latin America constructed their racial, sexual, and gender identities in response to political violence, with a particular focus on Cold War-era Cuba and the Southern Cone. She is broadly interested in theories of the body, political thought in contexts of revolution and dictatorship, and the ways in which cultural productions—literature, art, and otherwise—appropriate and transform state-sanctioned discourses of violence to resist oppression.

 

Prior to arriving at Yale, Keane graduated from the University of Notre Dame with a B.A. in Economics and Honors Spanish. In addition to writing an award-winning honors thesis on the sexual politics of the Cuban Revolution, Keane spent July 2024 examining the construction of Blackness in various 19th-century Afroargentine periodicals in Buenos Aires and Córdoba, Argentina. As a scholar and educator, Keane is committed to creating inclusive, intellectually curious communities that advance justice.