Anne Garland Mahler

Associate Professor of Spanish

Research Summary

Anne Garland Mahler is Associate Professor of Spanish and affiliated faculty in Latin American studies and the Carter G. Woodson Institute for African American and African studies. She is an interdisciplinary scholar focused on South-South political and cultural movements. Mahler is author of From the Tricontinental to the Global South: Race, Radicalism, and Transnational Solidarity (Duke, 2018), which has been reviewed over twenty times in a wide range of venues, and co-editor of The Comintern and the Global South: Global Designs/Local Encounters (Routledge, 2023). She has two forthcoming books: A Wide Net of Solidarity: Anti-Racism and Anti-Imperialism from the Americas to the Globe (Duke, 2025) and The Oxford Handbook of the History of the Global South (2026).

Committed to facilitating conversation and platforming the work of other scholars, Mahler has done significant work to support the foundation and growth of the field of Global South studies. She is creator and director of Global South Studies; author of "Global South" for Oxford Bibliographies in Literary and Critical Theory; co-editor of two special issues of CLS: Comparative Literature Studies on "New Critical Directions in Global South Studies"; and co-editor of a special issue on cultures of paramilitarism for the journal The Global South. She was also a founding executive committee member of the Global South Forum of the Modern Languages Association.

Mahler's work has been supported by the American Council of Learned Societies, Ford Foundation, and Mellon Foundation. She is a public scholar who frequently gives lectures internationally and contributes to podcasts, magazines and periodicals. Her public writings and interviews have been published in English, French, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, and Italian, and her work has inspired exhibits in Dresden, New York, Chicago, Charlottesville, and Torrance.

Mahler serves as co-coordinator of UVA's Interdisciplinary Doctoral Fellowship in Caribbean Literatures, Arts, and Cultures. She serves on the editorial boards of Latin American Literary Review, Modern Fiction Studies, Pacha: Revista de Estudios Contemporáneos del Sur Global, The Global Sixties: An Interdisciplinary Journal, the Afro-Latin American Writers in Translation series, and the Transnational Cultures series.

For more on her publications, interviews, and public scholarship, visit: https://annegarlandmahler.com

Publications

Books

From the Tricontinental to the Global South: Race, Radicalism, and Transnational Solidarity. Durham: Duke University Press, May 2018.

The Comintern and the Global South: Global Designs/Local Encounters, eds. Anne Garland Mahler and Paolo Capuzzo. Routledge, 2022.

A Wide Net of Solidarity: Anti-Racism and Anti-Imperialism from the Americas to the Globe (Forthcoming September 2025, Duke UP Radical Américas series).

The Oxford Handbook of the History of the Global South, eds. Anne Garland Mahler, Christopher J. Lee, and Monica Popescu (forthcoming 2026).

Edited Special Issues

"New Critical Directions in Global South Studies, Continuing the Conversation," eds. Magalí Armillas-Tiseyra and Anne Garland Mahler. Comparative Literature Studies 59.1 (2022).

“New Critical Directions in Global South Studies,” eds. Magalí Armillas-Tiseyra and Anne Garland Mahler. Comparative Literature Studies 58.3 (2021).

“Men with Guns: Cultures of Paramilitarism and the Modern Americas,” eds. Joshua Lund and Anne Garland Mahler. The Global South 12.2. (Fall 2018).

Articles

"A Photography of Relation: Indigeneity, Anti-Imperialism, and Tina Modotti’s Visual Language of Liberation." Cultural Critique 126 (forthcoming Winter 2025).

"Against Latin American Regionalisms: The 1927 Brussels Congress and the Anti-Imperialist League of the Americas." Latin American Research Review 59.3 (2024): 341-360.

Armillas-Tiseyra, Magalí and Anne Garland Mahler. "Introduction: New Critical Directions in Global South Studies, Continuing the Conversation." Comparative Literature Studies 59.1 (2022): 1-10.

“Global Solidarity before the Tricontinental Conference: Latin America and the League Against Imperialism" in The Tricontinental Revolution: Third World Radicalism and the Cold War, eds. Mark Atwood Lawrence and R. Joseph Parrott. Cambridge UP, 2022.

Armillas-Tiseyra, Magalí and Anne Garland Mahler. "Introduction: New Critical Directions in Global South Studies." Comparative Literature Studies 58.3 (2021): 465-84.

“The Limits of Global Solidarity: Reading the 1968 Cultural Congress of Havana through Andrew Salkey’s Havana Journal.” The Cultural Cold War and the Global South: Sites of Contest and Communitas, eds. Kerry Bystrom, Monica Popescu, and Katherine Zien, 62-76. Routledge, 2021.

Lee, Christopher J. and Anne Garland Mahler. “The Bandung Era, Non-Alignment, and the Third Way Literary Imagination.” The Palgrave Handbook of Cold War Literature, ed. Andrew Hammond, 183-202. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020.

Lund, Joshua K. and Anne Garland Mahler. “Men with Guns: Cultures of Paramilitarism and the Modern Americas.” The Global South 12.2 (2018): 1-27 (published 2019).

“South-South Organizing in the Global Plantation Zone: Ramón Marrero Aristy, the novela de la caña, and the Caribbean Bureau.” Atlantic Studies: Global Currents 19.2 (2019): 236-60.

“The Red and the Black in Latin America: Sandalio Junco and the ‘Negro Question’ from an Afro-Latin American Perspective.” American Communist History (Spring 2018): 1-17.

“Beyond the Color Curtain: The Metonymic Color Politics of the Tricontinental and the (New) Global South.” The Global South Atlantic, eds. Kerry Bystrom and Joseph Slaughter, 99-123. New York: Fordham University Press, 2017.

“Global South.” Oxford Bibliographies in Literary and Critical Theory, ed. Eugene O’Brien. New York: Oxford University Press, 2017.

“The Global South in the Belly of the Beast: Viewing African American Civil Rights Through a Tricontinental Lens.” Latin American Research Review 50.1 (2015): 95-116.