Research & Publications

Research

Dr. Cornet’s areas of scholarly and research specialization include Latin American, Caribbean, and US Latina/o Cultural Studies; Comparative and Transnational Blackness Studies; Gender Studies in Global Perspective. She is particularly interested in how contemporary cultures in Afro-diaspora city spaces are formed and given meaning. The public performance of cultures in the Dutch Caribbean is her current focus. With the support of a Fellowship from the Institute for African American Research at the University of South Carolina, she is completing her research for her book entitled Dutch Caribbean Performativities. This book on Curaçaoan Cultural Studies and Popular Culture will be a groundbreaking contribution to the field of cultural studies in the Caribbean, the Dutch Caribbean in particular. It will support critical discussions and further enhance a multifaceted framework for researching the Papiamentu speaking islands of the Dutch Caribbean.
In addition, Dr. Cornet is also working on a second book entitled Through the Eyes of her Sister. This book includes a compilation of paintings produced by the Curaçaoan painter, Viviana. In this book, Dr. Cornet chooses to introduce an idiom for Viviana’s paintings as she believes Viviana’s work reflects a Caribbean spirituality; the transpersonal essence of Caribbean people; and the multicultural Curaçaoan diaspora woman.

Publications

Dr. Cornet has published in Dutch Crossing: Journal of Low Countries Studies; Palimpsest: A Journal on Women, Gender, and the Black International; Dictionary of Caribbean and Afro-Latin American Biography; and Wagadu: A Journal of Transnational Women’s and Gender Studies. She is currently working on two books: Dutch Caribbean Performativity and Through the Eyes of Her Sister.

“Performing ‘New Nationalism’: Josefina Báez’s ‘Living Culture’ in Dominicanish,” in African American Arts: Activism, Aesthetics, and Futurity. Bucknell University Press. (Forthcoming, 2019).

“Afro-Caribbean Reflections on the Film Black Panther: Imagining Superheroes in the Nation-building Process of Curaçao.” Africology: The Journal of Pan African Studies. (Forthcoming, summer, 2018).

“Dutch Caribbean Women’s Literary Thought: Activism through Linguistic and Cosmopolitan Multiplicity,” Wagadu: A Journal of Transnational Women’s and Gender Studies, v.18, 2017.

“Moises Frumencio daCosta Gomez,” in Dictionary of Caribbean and Afro-Latin American Biography. Oxford University Press, 2016.

“Maria Liberia-Peters,” in Dictionary of Caribbean and Afro-Latin American Biography. Oxford University Press, 2016.

É Kurasoleña Nobo: Expressions of the Curaçaoan Woman in the Paintings by Jean Girigori, Minerva Lauffer and Viviana Cornet, Palimpsest, 3:2, 2014.

Haas de, Helen, Eksposishon Libertat: 150 Years Abolition of Slavery. Adapt. and trans. Florencia V. Cornet. Curaçaosche Courant Press, 2013. Print.

21st Century Curaçaoan Women Writers: Re-visiting, De-stabilizing and (Re) imagining the Kurasoleña, Dutch Crossing 37:1, 2013.