Marisel Moreno
Assistant Professor of Latino/a Literature
Romance Languages and Literatures
(PhD, Georgetown University, 2004)
172 Decio
574-631-6737
Email: mmorenoa@nd.edu
http://romancelanguages.nd.edu/people/moreno-anderson-marisel/
Geographic focus: Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, Cuba, and the US
Thematic interests: Caribbean Latino/a literature and culture, Afro-Latino/a literature, the “Other” Latinos (Central American and Peruvian), community-based learning pedagogy, and women’s literature, migration, race, ethnicity, and biculturalism.
Current research: Book manuscript in progress, Ties That Bind: Puerto Rican Women Authors on the Island and the Mainland, and Afro-Dominican literature.
Selected publications: “Family Matters: Revisiting la gran familia puertorriqueña in the Works of Rosario Ferré and Judith Ortiz Cofer,” Centro Journal 21, 2 (Fall 2010); “The Important Things Hide in Plain Sight: A Conversation with Junot Diaz,” Latino Studies 8,4 (2010); “The Tyranny of Silence: Marianismo as Violence in the Works of Alba Ambert and Annecy Baez,” The Latino(a) Research Review (SUNY) 7, 3 (Summer 2010); “Debunking Myths, Destabilizing Identities: A Reading of Junot Díaz’s ‘How to Date a Browngirl, Blackgirl, Whitegirl, or Halfie,’” Afro-Hispanic Review 26, 2 (Fall 2007); “‘More Room:’ Space, Woman, and Nation in Judith Ortíz Cofer’s Silent Dancing,” Hispanic Journal 22, 2 (Fall 2001).
