New York, NY
She/Her
Margarita Lila Rosa, PhD, is a public scholar specializing in Afro-Latinx, Latinx, and Black Atlantic history and contemporary art. As a curator, her focus is on modern and contemporary Afro-diasporic, Latin American art, and global contemporary feminist art. Currently a Lecturer in the Department of Black and Latino Studies at Baruch College, she has also taught at Stanford University. In 2024, she was part of the Studio Museum in Harlem’s Arts Leadership Praxis. Margarita has been a visiting critic at residencies and MFA programs, including Columbia University, Rutgers University, Hunter College, and Pratt University. She has written for the Museum of Modern Art; for catalogues and journals on the work of artists Mildred Howard, Yowshien Kuo, and Bony Ramirez; and published writing in The Black Scholar, The Brooklyn Rail, Frieze, Hyperallergic, i-D, the Journal of African American History, Slavery & Abolition, among others. Currently based in Harlem, Margarita holds a PhD from Princeton University in Comparative Literature (Spanish, Arabic, Portuguese).
