Tania Gentic is Associate Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese and a core faculty member of the Comparative Literature Program. She specializes in the literature, history, and culture of the contemporary Ibero-Atlantic world.

As her research and teaching reflect, Professor Gentic is driven by questions that explore the production and consumption of identity, be it through journalistic discourse and new media, philosophical explorations of subjectivity, or literary representations of nation, immigration, and community. Her first book is entitled The Everyday Atlantic: Time, Knowledge, and Subjectivity in the Twentieth-Century Iberian and Latin American Newspaper Chronicle (SUNY 2013). Examining the Atlantic world through a multilingual frame (Catalan, Spanish, and Portuguese), the book analyzes the roles affect, ideology, and ethics play in producing narratives of subjectivity in newspaper crónicas and blogs in Catalonia, Colombia, Brazil, and Mexico. In so doing, the text draws attention to the local, daily constructions of identity that disrupt a (trans)national or Hispanic concept of the Atlantic space.

Professor Gentic has also co-edited two volumes: Technology, Literature, and Digital Culture in Latin America: Mediatized Sensibilities in a Globalized Era (Routledge 2016), with Matthew Bush, and Imperialism and the Wider Atlantic: Essays on the Literature, Politics, and Aesthetics of Transatlantic Cultures (Palgrave MacMillan 2017), with Francisco LaRubia-Prado. The first explores the relationships among affect, media, and publics that emerge in dialogue with contemporary Latin American literature; the second argues for a wider understanding of the Atlantic that moves beyond disciplinary constraints or postcolonial approaches to the Hispanic world, and into more comparative analyses of the unique, and at times conflicting, relationships among Europe, Latin America, Africa, and the United States that art, literature, and culture produce.

Her most recent book, Geographies of the Ear: The Cultural Politics of Sound in Contemporary Barcelona , is due out from Duke University Press in Fall 2025.

Professor Gentic teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on critical theory, comparative literature, and sound studies; as well as 19th-21st century Peninsular and Latin American literature, culture, and film.