A Dominican (york?) who fled NY and hid away in the country to complete her dissertation. I want to cross the pond and have my weekends back! Main interests: Hispanic Caribbean Culture, Contemporary Dominican Cultural Production, Migration Writing, Transnational Identities.
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Ph.D. The Graduate Center-City University of New York (U.S.A)
Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literatures and Languages, expected
April 2014
Between Two Islands: Contemporary Dominican Writings from
Quisqueya to New York.
Elena Martínez (Chair), Óscar Montero, Magdalena Perkowska ,
Marlene Gottlieb, Médar Serrata, Carlos Decena and Sophie Mariñez.
MPhil The Graduate Center-City University of New York (U.S.A)
Hispanic and Luso Brazilian, September 2010
MA Lehman College-City University of New York (U.S.A.)
Master’s of Arts, Spanish Literature, May 2007
BA Lehman College-City university of New York (U.S.A)
Bachelor of Arts, Spanish Literature and Psychology, June 2004
Monographs Published as a Part of a Series
“La identidad y las construcciones espaciales en la literatura dominicana. La perpetuación del mito rural en Geographies of Home frente a una visión transgresora de lo provincial en El carnaval de Sodoma.” Ciberletras: Revista de Crítica Literaria y de Cultura – Journal of Literary Criticism and Culture 27 (2012). Web.
“Levente No. Yolayorkdominicanyork: Rompiendo las fronteras entre el aquí y el allá.” Contratiempo 101 (2013). Print.
Chapters in Edited Books
“Hispaniola and Beyond: Contemporary Writings and Otherness.” En The Otherness
Triangle: Haiti, the DR and the International Community. Eds. Henry Carey
and Karen Richman. Work in process.
“La comunión entre música y literatura en La estrategia de Chochueca. En busca de la heterogeneidad perdida.”El sonido de la música en la narrativa dominicanaEnsayos sobre identidad, nación y performance. Ed. Médar Serrata. Santo Domingo: Instituto de Estudios Caribeños. October 2012. Print.
Book Reviews
Review of Memoria Y Cuerpo: El testimonio femenino en Colombia (1985-2000) by Constanza López Baquero. Work in process
Review of Hispanic Caribbean Literature of Migration: Narratives of Displacement
edited by Vanessa Pérez Rosario. Centro Journal, volume xxv, number I, 2013.
Non-Academic Publications
Mateo, Francis. Ubre Urbe “Prólogo”. New York City, New York, 2013.