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Regina Mills

Assistant Professor
Areas of Speciality
  • 20th and 21st Century Studies
  • Transnational Literatures
  • American Literature and Culture
  • Popular Culture
  • Race and Ethnicity Studies
  • African American and African Diaspora Literature
  • Gender and Sexuality Studies
  • Latinx Literature
Contact
  • (979) 845-8318
  • rmills@tamu.edu
  • LAAH 376
Professional Links

Education

Ph.D., The University of Texas at Austin, 2018

M.A., The University of Texas at Austin, 2014

M.Ed., Arizona State University, 2011

B.A. Washington and Lee University, 2009

Bio

Regina Marie Mills is an assistant professor of Latinx and Multi-Ethnic Literature. As a first-generation college student, she supports current first-gen students through the First Faculty Mentor program. Her current book project, Invisibility and Influence: A Literary History of US Afrolatinidades examines AfroLatina/x/o life writing through the lens of woman-of-color feminist life writing scholarship. She is currently writing an essay on US-Central American and Central American refugee narratives as a contributor to The Routledge Handbook of Refugee Narratives as well as an essay on the opportunities and challenges inherent in teaching video games in the literature classroom for Teaching Games and Games Studies in the Literature Classroom (an MLA volume).

Research Interests

Dr. Mills’s Scholars@TAMU Profile

  • Afro-Caribbean and Afro-Latinx Literature
  • Life Writing Studies
  • US-Central American and Refugee Literature
  • Human Rights and Literary Studies
  • Video Games as Literature
  • Archives

Publications

Masiki, Trent and Regina Marie Mills. “Post-Soul Afro-Latinidades.” The Black Scholar vol. 52, no. 1, Spring 2022.

 

 

 

  • Mills, Regina Marie. “Border-crossing, Identity, and Voice in US-Central American Refugee Narratives.” The Routledge Handbook of Refugee Narratives, edited by Evyn Lê Espiritu Gandhi and Vinh Nguyen. Routledge. Forthcoming (2023).
  • Mills, Regina Marie. “Gaming Literature: Games as an Accessible Entry into the Study of Literature.” Teaching Games and Games Studies in the Literature Classroom, edited by Tison Pugh (U of Central Florida) and Lynn Ramey (Vanderbilt). New York: Bloomsbury Academic. Forthcoming, October 20, 2022. (available for pre-order)
  • Mills, Regina Marie. “Latina/o/x Archives.” In Oxford Bibliographies in Latino Studies, edited by Ilan Stavans. Oxford University Press, Forthcoming.
  • Mills, Regina Marie. “A Post-Soul Spider-Man: The Remixed Heroics of Miles Morales.” The Black Scholar vol. 52, no. 1, Spring 2022, pp. 41-52. DOI: 10.1080/00064246.2022.2007345.
  • “Naming Loss: An Interview with Naima Coster.” Interview by Regina Marie Mills and Trent Masiki. The Black Scholar, vol. 52, no. 1, Spring 2022, pp. 5-14.
  • Masiki, Trent and Regina Marie Mills. “Introduction: Bridging African American and Latina/o/x Studies.” The Black Scholar, vol. 52, no. 1, Spring 2022, pp. 1-4.
  • Mills, Regina Marie. “Teaching Writing Now: Creative Close Readings,” Open Words: Access and English Studies, vol. 13, no. 1, December 2021.
  • “Beyond Resistance in Dominican American Women’s Fiction: Healing and Growth through the Spectrum of Quietude in Angie Cruz’s Soledad and Naima Coster’s Halsey Street.” Latino Studies. (Forthcoming, March 2021)
  • “Literary-Legal Representations: Statelessness and the Demands of Justice in Héctor Tobar’s The Tattooed Soldier.” Chiricú Journal: Latina/o Literatures, Arts, and Cultures, vol. 2, no. 2, Spring 2018, pp. 96-117.