Flavia Mayrinck Vidal 88F, Chair

After Hampshire, Flavia Vidal went on to get her Ph.D. in interdisciplinary literary studies from Brandeis University. She then worked for 20 years at Phillips Academy, Andover, where she was director of the Brace Center for Gender Studies and instructor in English and interdisciplinary studies at the Jonathan French Foundation. During the summers, she ran one of Andover’s learning in the world travel programs, Brazil PLACES (People, Landscapes, Arts, Culture, Environment, Sustainability). Her academic interests and scholarship center on postcolonial studies, transnational feminisms, intersectional gender and sexuality studies, race and ethnicity, immigration, equitable education, and literary translation. 
 
At Hampshire, Flavia was a student representative to the School of Humanities & Arts and a S.A.M. in Merrill House. Flavia has also served on the executive board of Lextended Day (2011-14), an after-school program for the public elementary schools in her town of Lexington, MA. Next year, she will be moving to the Seattle area, where she will take on a new position as director of teaching and learning at The Overlake School.  
 
Flavia grew up in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and her 30+ years as a Latina in the U.S. have informed her views on and experiences of identity as inevitably intersectional. Collaboration and activism in service of intersectional social justice ground her educational philosophy. She is excited to bring her skills, experience, and passion to her new role as chair of AAG.