Position Title
Assistant Professor
- Spanish and Portuguese
Research Areas
Bio
Charlie Hankin specializes in music-literature relations in the twentieth and twenty-first century Caribbean and Brazil. Based on extensive ethnographic fieldwork and recording collaboration in Cuba, Brazil, and Haiti, his book Break and Flow: Hip Hop Poetics in the Americas (UVA Press, 2023) was awarded the Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literary Studies from the MLA. He is editor of the dossier Words and Rhythm, Sound and Text (Latin American Literary Review, 2024). His current book project, “Writing in Clave,” proposes a rhythmic counterpoint between popular music and literature in the twentieth-century Caribbean.
Hankin has also taught, performed, and recorded as a professional violinist. In 2017, he recorded violin tracks and co-produced with Malcoms “Justicia” the Cuban hip hop album Sentimientos Desafinados, which was nominated for a CubaDisco award.