English, Spanish, Arabic, French

Research interests: Moroccan literature and music; Multilingualism and identity; Global hip-hop; Decolonial theory; Arabfuturism; Migration studies; Hauntology and mourning

MacKenzie's work explores the multiple overlapping relationships between Morocco and Spain and how those relationships manifest as expressions of identity and socio-political commentary within literature and popular music. Her current project traces the development of Arabfuturism(s) through the aesthetics and worldbuilding of recent works by the Moroccan rapper Manal. MacKenzie is also a proud alumna of Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio (BA, English Literature and Spanish, TESOL certificate) and the University of Maryland, College Park (MA, English Literature). Her M.A. capstone, “‘[T]he story of many’: Decolonizing time, space, and grief through spectrality in Aracelis Girmay’s The Black Maria,” examined manifestations of alternate selfhoods and realities as a means to express grief, solidarity, and possibility in the face of temporal and spatial hegemony within the context of the Lampedusa migrant shipwreck in 2013 and its place in the historical relations between Eritrea and the Mediterranean.