OTERO, SOLIMAR
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
223-C Allen Hall
578-3046
solimar@lsu.edu
Solimar Otero is a Cuban-American Assistant Professor of English at Louisiana State University. Her interests include Afro-Caribbean spirituality and Yoruba traditional religion in Cuba and the United States. She received her Ph.D. in Folklore and Folklife from The University of Pennsylvania. She has conducted fieldwork on these topics in Cuba and Nigeria under a Fulbright award. Her work has appeared in Western Folklore , Africa Today , The Black Scholar , The American Journal of Psychoanalysis , and Atlantic Studies. She has currently completed a manuscript about Yoruba-Cuban repatriation to Africa.