Black Lit·Orature
Research
Carmin Wong is a doctoral student in english Literature and African American & Diaspora Studies at Penn State University. Her writing and research centers on the intersections of spoken and written transnational Black literature/ poetry across the Anglophone world. Specifically, she focuses on the contributions of African American and Afro-Caribbean poets in the social and political movement for Black liberation throughout the long twentieth century. Her research has been supported by the Africana Research Center and Center for Black Digital Research (CBDR) at Penn State. She is currently a #DigBlk fellow with CBDR and a Bunton-Waller recipient. Wong has traveled to Puerto Rico, St. Croix, and St. Lucia to present her research while also researching in Ghana, Guinea, England, and her homeland of Guyana.
Education
2021-Present
Penn State University
Wong is the recipient of the 2024 Graduate Voices in Diversity and Inclusion grant and the 2024 Graduate Alliance in Diversity and Inclusion Service award for her commitment to community education. She served as the first Vice Chairwoman of the Borough of State College Racial Equity Advisory Committee and an instructor of Creative Writing with the Restorative Justice Initiative.
2018-2020
University of New Orleans
Wong earned an m.f.a. in poetry wrting from UNO. She is the recipient of the 2020 Agnes Levine Memorial Award. Her graduate thesis, LANGUAGE OF EMPIRE, was awarded distinction. Ahe co-coordinated the “Black Joy and Justice” programming at the 2018 Words and Music Festival and became involved with the ACLU of Louisiana and the national ACLU Advocacy Institute. Wong was also on-boarded as a volunteer Hi-SET/GED instructor at a women's facility at Orleans Parish Prison before COVID-19.
2014-2018
Howard University
Wong earned a B.A. in English with a minor in playwriting from the Chadwick Boseman College of Fine Arts and was inducted into the Sigma Tau Delta International English Society. She served on the executive board of HU's Alternative Spring Break program leading restoration projects in Philipsburg, St. Maarten after the devastation of Hurricane Irma.
Teaching
