Yohely Compres

Yohely Comprés is a doctoral student in the combined program in African American Studies and Spanish & Portuguese at Yale University. She received her BA from Wesleyan University in 2024 with departmental honors in African American Studies and Latin American Studies, with support from the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship. Her honors thesis examined allegorical and discursive representations of the ocean in Afro-Dominican literature and Black critical theory. At Yale, she hopes to continue engaging with the oceanic (im)possibilities of Black life-world-making in the Hispanophone Caribbean. Yohely was named an Environmental Humanities Fellow at the Whitney Humanities Center and a Graduate Fellow at the Yale Center for the Study of Race, Indigeneity, and Transnational Migration in 2024-2025.