About

Stephanie Bosch Santana is an Associate Professor and the Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Comparative Literature at UCLA. She holds a B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley, an M.A. and Ph.D. from Harvard University, completed in 2011 and 2015 respectively. Her current book project maps new geographies for the study of African literature, focusing on South African, Malawian, Zimbabwean, and Zambian fiction from the 1950s to the present day. The project explores how writers from these nations have developed new genres of fiction in popular media to imagine changing modes of interconnection across space. Her recent work also concentrates on new media literature from Africa and its diaspora. Santana’s research interests include African literature, transnational and diasporic literature, postcolonial literature, digital literature, and urban and spatial studies. She has previously served as an Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and as a Teaching Fellow at Harvard University.

Research topics

• Sociology
• Political Science
• Law
• Medicine
• Media studies
• Internal medicine
• History
• Archaeology
• Linguistics
• Art history
• Psychology
• Gender studies
• Virology
• Intensive care medicine

Selected publications

• Social media as new canvas, space, and channel for Afrophone literatures

  Journal of the African Literature Association · 2025-09-02

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• Forms of Mobility

  Northwestern University Press eBooks · 2024-10-19 · 2 citations

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• WCN24-2525 ANALYSIS OF THE IMPACT OF THE CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC ON THE FOLLOW-UP OF POST KIDNEY TRANSPLANT PATIENTS IN A TRANSPLANT INSTITUTION IN SANTA CATARINA, BRAZIL

  Kidney International Reports · 2024

  • Political Science
  • Medicine
  • Intensive care medicine
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• <i>Matsotsi</i>: The Migrant Detective and the Postcolonial State

  The Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry · 2023

  1st authorCorresponding
  • Sociology
  • Political Science
  • Gender studies

  Abstract Recent work on crime fiction has highlighted the genre’s increasingly transnational focus and the growing number of migrant detectives. Matsotsi , a little-known Nyanja text published in Zambia in the early 1960s, provides a much earlier example of this figure in Sergeant Balala, an Angolan detective fighting to contain the tsotsi menace in Johannesburg, South Africa. Matsotsi , however, does more than point to cross-border detection as a means of elucidating transnational relationships. Shonga and Zulu’s text manipulates the genres of the detective novel and the bildungsroman to tell a story about the relationships among the individual, the state, and the wider region at a key moment in southern African history, when Zambia and Malawi were on the cusp of independence. Although African language writing has often been considered too localized to be used for nationalist purposes, here it is mobilized for the purpose of state-making in a transnational context.

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• Roundtable review of Shola Adenekan's <i>African Literature in the Digital Age</i> (2021)African Digital Literature by Invite Only

  Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies · 2023

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  • Sociology
  • Psychology
  • Media studies

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• Navigating Digital Worlds

  2021-01-09

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• Abstract 9331: Adverse Maternal Fetal Environment Partially Mediates Disparate Outcomes in Hispanic and Non Hispanic Black Infants With Critical Congenital Heart Disease

  Circulation · 2021-11-16

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  Introduction: Etiologies of racial and ethnic disparities in critical congenital heart disease (CCHD) outcomes are not fully understood. We sought to determine whether differential exposure to an adverse maternal fetal environment (AMFE) partially explains disparate outcomes. Methods: We included infants with CCHD in a population-based administrative California database (2011-2017). Primary exposure was race/ethnicity. Primary mediator was AMFE, defined as maternal metabolic syndrome (MMS: any diabetes, abnormal BMI, or hyperlipidemia) or maternal placental syndrome (MPS: pre-eclampsia/ eclampsia, gestational hypertension, or placental abruption). Outcomes: days alive out of hospital in first year of life (DAOOH); composite of 1-year mortality or severe morbidity (e.g., ECMO, cardiac arrest, BPD, etc.). Mediation analyses (CCHD severity-adjusted) determined % contribution to outcome for each mediator on pathways between race/ethnicity and outcomes. Results: Included were 2,747 Non-Hispanic (NH) White [REF group], 5,244 Hispanic, and 625 NH Black infants. Hispanic and NH Black infants had higher risk for composite outcome (crude OR, 1.18; crude OR, 1.25 respectively) and fewer DAOOH (-6 &amp; -12 days, respectively). Relative to NH White infants (MMS 28%; MPS 12%), Hispanic infants had higher MMS exposure (43%, OR, 1.89), while NH Black infants had higher MMS (44%, OR, 1.97) &amp; MPS exposure (18%, OR, 1.66). Both MMS exposure (OR, 1.21) and MPS exposure (OR 1.56) were related to composite outcome and fewer DAOOH (-25 &amp; -16 days, respectively). AMFE explained 25% of relationship between NH Black race and composite outcome, and 18% of relationship between Hispanic ethnicity and composite outcome. AMFE explained 16% (NH Black race) and 21% (Hispanic ethnicity) of the association with DAOOH (Table). Conclusions: Increased exposure to AMFE contributes to disparate outcomes in NH Black and Hispanic infants with CCHD. This novel finding merits clinical attention.

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• Olakunle George, African Literature and Social Change: tribe, nation, race. Bloomington IN: Indiana University Press (hb US$80 – 978 0 253 02546 3; pb US$30 – 978 0 253 02580 7). 2017, ix + 211 pp.

  Africa · 2020-08-01

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• Association between hemoglobin concentrations at discharge from the neonatal intensive care unit with markers of neurodevelopmental outcomes in premature neonates

  Journal of Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine · 2019-02-23 · 3 citations

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  BACKGROUND: Premature neonates are often subjected to multiple transfusions with red blood cells during their hospitalization in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). The hemoglobin threshold for transfusion prior to discharge from the NICU varies significantly among different centers. The aim of the present study is to investigate the association between hemoglobin concentration at discharge with neurodevelopmental outcomes in premature neonates. METHODS: Retrospective observation study with regression analysis was performed with follow up assessment in the neuro-developmental outpatient clinic at 30 months of adjusted age. RESULTS: Data from 357 neonates born at less than 37 weeks' gestation were analyzed. Sensory and motor neurodevelopment at 30 months of adjusted age, were not associated with the hemoglobin concentration at discharge (p=0.5891 and p=0.4575, respectively). There was no association between the hemoglobin concentration at discharge with fine or gross motor development (p=0.1582 and p=0.3805, respectively). Hemoglobin concentration at discharge was not associated with poor neurodevelopmental outcomes up until 30 months of adjusted age. CONCLUSIONS: The data of the present study indicate that the hemoglobin concentration of premature neonates at the time of discharge is not associated with poorer markers of neurodevelopmental outcomes at 30 months of adjusted age. Comorbidities such as BPD and IVH that are present to premature neonates were identified as potential risk factors for certain aspects of the neurodevelopment.

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• Correlation of Echocardiogram and Exercise Test Data in Children with Aortic Stenosis

  Pediatric Cardiology · 2019-08-07 · 10 citations

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Frequent coauthors

• Panagiotis Kratimenos

  George Washington University

  15 shared

• Roschanak Mossabeb

  St. Christopher's Hospital for Children

  9 shared

• Folasade Kehinde

  St. Christopher's Hospital for Children

  9 shared

• Rachel Fleishman

  9 shared

• Ioannis Koutroulis

  National Research Institute

  6 shared

• Panagiotis Christidis

  Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

  3 shared

• Shabnam Peyvandi

  University of California, San Francisco

  1 shared

• Helena Balbe

  1 shared

Awards & honors

• CLGSA Fellowship and Graduate Support
• The Michael Henry Heim Memorial Lecture