Mariamnny Contreras Fernández is a Ph.D. Candidate in Spanish Literature and Cultural Studies at Georgetown University. A sociologist by training — with a B.A. from the Universidad Central de Venezuela and an M.A. in Iberian and Latin American Studies from the University of Notre Dame — her work moves across the history of medicine, feminist historiography, and Latin American cultural studies. Her dissertation, Witches and Doctors: Gender, Race, and Medical Authority in Nineteenth- to Twentieth-Century Cuba, Brazil, and Venezuela, examines how print culture and literature collaborated to criminalize non-white healing practices and erase the figure of the female healer from official narratives of medical modernity. Drawing on comparative archival research conducted at institutions including the Cuban Heritage Collection at the University of Miami, her scholarship traces the intersections of gender, race, and colonial power across three national contexts. Her broader research interests include queer and body studies, performative-discursive practices, diasporic writing, and the cultural politics of knowledge production in the Atlantic world.