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

“Introduction: Making the World a Better Place: First Generation College Students Tackling World Issues through Stories, History, and Research,” in Athena: Undergraduate Research and Literary Journal, 2023, v. 3 article 1, 2023, pp 1-6.

“First-Generation College Students: A Case Study in Diversity, Intercultural Inclusion, and Academic Success,” in Advising in TRIO Student Support Services: A Resource Collection Advancing Educational Equity and Student Success, Eds. in A.D. Counts, K. A. Hilliard, & J. A. Seabold. University of South Carolina: National Resource Center for The First-Year Experience & Students in Transition, 2023, pp. 30-35.

“Dutch Caribbean Children’s and Young Adult Literature,” in Children and Young Adult Literature of the Caribbean and Its Diaspora, Vol 1., Eds. Betsy Nies and Melissa Garcia Vega. University of Mississippi Press, 2023, pp. 1-25.

“Performing ‘New Nationalism’: Josefina Báez’s ‘Living Culture’ in Dominicanish,” in African American Arts: Activism, Aesthetics, and Futurity. Ed. Sharrell D. Luckett. Bucknell University Press, 2019, pp. 51-68. 

“Afro-Caribbean Reflections on the Film Black Panther: Imagining Superheroes in the Nation-building Process of Curaçao,” in Africology: The Journal of Pan African Studies, 11:9, 2018, pp. 31-38.

“Dutch Caribbean Women’s Literary Thought: Activism through Linguistic and Cosmopolitan Multiplicity,” in Wagadu: A Journal of Transnational Women’s and Gender Studies, v.18, (Winter) 2017, pp. 175-202. 

“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, in Palimpsest: A Journal on Women, Gender, and the Black International, 3:2, 2014, pp. 99-129.

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,” in Dutch Crossing: Journal of Low Countries Studies, 37:1, 2013, pp. 93-108.