Aponte Andujar, Josuan
APONTE ANDUJAR, SUAN
Josuan Aponte Andújar is a trans woman from Puerto Rico. She has a BA degree in philosophy and an MA in English with a concentration in linguistics, both from the University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras Campus. She is currently a doctoral student in the Department of Translation and Language Sciences at Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona. She has participated as a speaker at various symposia and conferences in Puerto Rico, Barbados, Jamaica and New Zealand. In 2019 she published a chapter for the book Positive Interferences: Unsettling resonances in the study of the languages, literatures and cultures of the Greater Caribbean and beyond published by the University of Curaçao. At the moment she is working on her dissertation research project which employs an ethnographic perspective in order to realize a qualitative and quantitative investigation of offline and online immigrant and local trans discourse in Barcelona, covering such areas as naming practices and use of gendered personal pronouns. The project is specifically designed to address the lack of doctoral theses on the language practices of the trans community in Barcelona, as well as to begin to undo silences around various issues, such as identity, agency and intersectional discrimination.