Portrait of Viana Hara

Viana Hara

PhD Graduate Candidate , Romance Languages
Spanish Instructor
IRES, Romance Languages, Spanish, Yamada Language Center
vhara@uoregon.edu
Office Hours: Fall 2026, Mac Court 113. Thursday, 9- 11 a.m.
Research Interests: Race and Gender Studies; Visual Culture; Panamanian Literature (novela canalera); U.S. White women's travel writing during the Panama Canal Construction and the Panama Canal Zone establishment; West Indian literature, particularly Guadeloupean literature and the works of Maryse Condé; representations of the West Indian Black woman in Panama; Jim Crow narratives beyond the United States; representations of the Mammy figure in the U.S. South; postcards, photography, and ekphrasis; and contemporary collage and visual art by Panamanian West Indian women artists.

Biography

Viana Anette Hara is a doctoral candidate in Romance Languages and Indigenous, Race, and Ethnic Studies at the University of Oregon. Working with an archive of 19th-, 20th-, and 21st-century novels, postcards, and comics, and focusing on Panama, the West Indian Caribbean, and the United States, she explores issues of race and gender in cultural materials circulated before, during, and after the construction of the Panama Canal, using decolonial approaches. 

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