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Kristina Gibby is an Assistant Professor of Humanities at UVU. She holds a BA in Humanities and MA in Comparative Studies from Brigham Young University and a PhD in Comparative Literature (Minor in Hispanic Studies) from Louisiana State University. She teaches introductory humanities courses, world literature, Caribbean literature, and Latin American humanities. Dr. Gibby's interests include time, memory, history, nature, modern art, and Hemispheric American studies. She has published articles and book chapters on Carson McCullers, Sandra Cisneros, Zoé Valdés, Maryse Condé, and Edwidge Danticat. Her first book, Ancestral Voices, Healing Narratives, released December 2023, analyzes the role of female spirits in contemporary novels from the US and the Caribbean

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