Cecily Raynor is Chair of the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures and Associate Professor of Hispanic Studies and Digital Humanities at McGill University. Her research investigates how global technological and environmental forces shape cultural and linguistic expression in Latin America, with particular attention to how individuals and communities negotiate identity, language and belonging across digital and physical environments.

Her monograph on spatial practices in contemporary Latin America was published by Bucknell University Press in 2021, and her co-edited volume on digital culture in Latin America appeared with the University of Toronto Press in 2023.

Dr. Raynor is currently conducting two interrelated research projects. Toxic Futures: Cultures of the Environment in Latin America examines how literature, film, and digital media represent the entanglements of contamination, inequality, and ecological precarity in the twenty-first century. Drawing on case studies from across the Americas, it situates environmental and health degradation within broader questions of labor, justice, and collective responsibility. Her second project, Multilingual AI in the Global South, investigates how artificial intelligence, translation technologies, and data infrastructures are transforming linguistic and environmental relations. By tracing how AI systems and their material infrastructures—such as data centers in Chile and Panama and linguistic policies in Brazil—mediate cultural production and ecological impact, this work brings digital and environmental humanities into dialogue to explore how technological and ecological crises are represented, contested, and reimagined in Latin American contexts.