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 leading 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, extraction, and ecological change in the twenty-first century. Her second project, Multilingual AI in the Global South, investigates how artificial intelligence, translation technologies, and data infrastructures are reshaping linguistic, cultural, and environmental relations. By tracing how AI systems and their material infrastructures—such as data centers in Panama and Brazil—mediate cultural production and ecological impact, this work brings digital and environmental humanities into sustained dialogue, exploring how technological and ecological crises are represented, contested, and reimagined in Latin American contexts.