MARISEL C. MORENO University of Notre Dame Department of Romance Languages and Literatures Notre Dame, IN 46556 (574) 514-5444 [email protected] March 2020 _____________________________________________________________________________ ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS Rev. John A. O’Brien Associate Professor, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, University of Notre Dame, August 2018. Associate Professor, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, University of Notre Dame, May 2013-present. Assistant Professor, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, University of Notre Dame, Fall 2007-2013 Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, University of Notre Dame, Fall 2006-Spring 2007 Adjunct Instructor, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, University of Notre Dame, Fall 1998-Spring 2001, Spring 2003-Spring 2006 (except Spring 2004) Lecturer, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Georgetown University, Spring 1997-Spring 1998 Faculty Fellow, Institute for Latino Studies, University of Notre Dame, 2005-present. Faculty Fellow, Helen Kellogg Institute for International Studies, University of Notre Dame, Spring 2009-present. Affiliated Faculty, Gender Studies and Africana Studies, 2018-present. Faculty Fellow, Kaneb Center, University of Notre Dame, 2017-2018. EDUCATION Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. Ph.D., Hispanic Literature, 2004 Dissertation: Writing Puerto Rico: The Literature of Insular and U.S. Puerto Rican Women Authors University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA Coursework towards a graduate degree in Hispanic Literature, 1995-1996 University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA B.A., French, 1995 BOOK Family Matters: Puerto Rican Women Authors on the Island and the Mainland. University of Virginia Press, August 2012. WORK in PROGRESS Crossing Waters: Undocumented Migration in the Cultural Production of the Hispanic Caribbean and Its Diaspora. Book project under review at the University of Texas Press. DIGITAL ENGAGED SCHOLARSHIP Co-organizer, along with Thomas F. Anderson, of the teach-out Listening to Puerto Rico, a collaboration between the University of Notre Dame and the University of Michigan. The goal of this online micro-course was to create awareness about the impact of Hurricane María, and to promote action from the public. The course was organized around a series of interviews filmed in Puerto Rico in June 2018. It was available on Coursera from 8/27/18 to 9/24/18, and was supplemented with a series of events at Notre Dame, such as the Listening to Puerto Rico Faculty Roundtable (8/31, Eck Center Auditorium) and the web show Hurricane María One Year Later: Voices of Puerto Rican Students at Notre Dame (9/12). All of the contents of the online course is available at listeningtopuertorico.org. It is an ongoing project to which we continue to add audiovisual materials (interviews conducted in December) and resources. The project was featured on the front page of Puerto Rico’s El Nuevo Día, the island’s leading newspaper, on 12/30/18 (article). A number of cross-disciplinary and inter-university collaborations have emerged out of the project, such as a CSC faculty immersion trip in P.R. and a summer study program for Notre Dame students at the University of Sagrado Corazón. More detailed information about the project and its outcomes here. PUBLICATIONS in REFEREED JOURNALS/VENUES “Literary Representations of Migration.” Oxford Encyclopedia of Latina/o Literature. Invited contributor. Spring 2019. “The ‘Art of Witness’ in US Central American Cultural Production: An Analysis of William Archila’s The Art of Exile and Alma Leiva’s Celdas. Latino Studies 15.3 (Fall 2017): 287-308. 2 “The Untold Midwestern Puerto Rican Story: Fred Arroyo’s Western Avenue and Other Fictions.” Studies in American Fiction 42.2 (Fall 2015): 269-289. “‘Swimming in olive oil’: North Africa and the Hispanic Caribbean in the Poetry of Víctor Hernández Cruz.” Hispanic Review 83.3 (Summer 2015). 299-316. "Writing the Puerto Rican Rural Experience in the Midwest: An Interview with Fred Arroyo." CENTRO Journal (Center for Puerto Rican Studies) 27.1 (Spring 2015): 146-165. “‘I am an American Writer:’ An Interview with Daniel Alarcón.” With Thomas F. Anderson. MELUS Journal 39.4 (Winter 2014): 186-206. “Los derechos humanos en Erzulie’s Skirt de Ana Lara.” GLOBAL: Revista de la Fundación Global Democracia y Desarrollo 8.42 (Sept.-Oct. 2011): 38-46. “’Burlando la raza:’ La poesía de escritoras afrodominicanas en la diáspora.” Camino Real: Estudios de las Hispanidades Norteamericanas (Instituto Franklin, U de Alcalá) 3.4 (2011): 169-192. “Family Matters: Revisiting la gran familia puertorriqueña in the Works of Rosario Ferré and Judith Ortíz Cofer.” CENTRO Journal (Center for Puerto Rican Studies) 22.2 (Fall 2010): 74-105. “The important things hide in plain sight: A Conversation with Junot Diaz.” Latino Studies (Palgrave) 8.4 (2010): 532-542. “The Tyranny of Silence: Marianismo as Violence in the Works of Alba Ambert and Annecy Baez.” The Latino(a) Research Review (SUNY) 7.3 (2009-2010): 121-144. “Dominican Dreams: Diasporic Identity in Angie Cruz’s Let It Rain Coffee.” Sargasso 2008-09, II “Quisqueya: La República Extended” (University of Puerto Rico): 101-116. “Bordes líquidos, fronteras y espejismos: El dominicano y la migración intra-caribeña en boat people de Mayra Santos Febres.” Revista de Estudios Hispánicos (University of Puerto Rico) 34.2 (2007): 17-32. “Debunking Myths, Destabilizing Identities: A Reading of Junot Díaz’s ‘How to Date a Browngirl, Blackgirl, Whitegirl, or Halfie.’” Afro-Hispanic Review (Vanderbilt University) 26.2 (Fall 2007): 9-23. “‘More Room:’ Space, Woman, and Nation in Judith Ortíz Cofer’s Silent Dancing.” Hispanic Journal 22.2 (Fall 2001): 437-446. BOOK CHAPTER 3 “Keeping It Real: Bridging US Latino/a Literature and Community Through Student Engagement” in Civic Engagement in Diverse Latina/o Communities: Learning from Social Justice Partnerships in Action, Edited by Mari Castañeda and Joseph Krupczynski. (Peter Lang, Spring 2018). BOOK REVIEWS Junot Díaz and the Decolonial Imagination. Eds. Monica Hanna, Jennifer Vargas, and José Saldívar. (Durham: Duke UP, 2016), 449 pp. Modern Fiction Studies 63.4 (2017): 771-773. “Girls, Violence, and Patriarchal Desire in Hispanic Caribbean Women’s Narratives.” Nadia V. Celis Salgado’s La rebelión de las niñas: El Caribe y la “conciencia” corporal. (Madrid: Iberoamericana, 2015), 354 pp. (Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal 13.2 (2016). Juanita Heredia’s Transnational Latina Narratives in the Twenty-First Century: The Politics of Gender, Race, and Migrations (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009) in Modern Fiction Studies 57.2 (Summer 2011): 343-346. Marc Zimmerman’s Defending Their Own in the Cold: The Cultural Turns of U.S. Puerto Ricans (Urbana: U of Illinois P, 2011) in Latino(a) Research Review 8.1-2 (2011-2012): 255-258. EVALUATION OF SCHOLARSHIP (Reviewer) CENTRO Journal. January 2020 MELUS. May 2018 The Journal of American Culture (BYU). November 2018. Small Axe. November 2017. CENTRO Journal. October 2017 MELUS. May 2017 Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature. September 2016 Studies in American Fiction. March 2016 Revista de Estudios Hispánicos. February 2016 MELUS. May 2015. Journal of Transnational American Studies. May 2015 Journal of Narrative Theory. January 2015 The Black Scholar. December 2014 CENTRO Journal. May 2014 Religion and Literature Journal. University of Notre Dame. October 2013 Modern Language Studies Journal. September 2012 American Studies in Scandinavi. May 2011 HONORS and AWARDS 4 2019 Winner of Rev. William A. Toohey, C.S.C., Award for Social Justice. May 2019. 2018 Appointed the Rev. John A. O’Brien Associate Professor 2016 Sheedy Award for Excellence in Teaching, College of Arts and Letters 2015 EXTIMO (Exceptional Teaching Impact and Motivation) Student Voice Award for Outstanding Spanish Teacher, Indiana AATSP (American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese), October 2015. Honorable mention, LASA Latino/a Studies Section Article Award for “Family Matters: Revisiting la gran familia puertorriqueña in the Works of Rosario Ferré and Judith Ortíz Cofer.” CENTRO Journal (Center for Puerto Rican Studies) 22.2 (Fall 2010): 74-105. May 2012. 2011 Governor’s Award for Service-Learning, Indiana Governor’s Office of Faith-Based Initiatives. Indianapolis, October 2011. FELLOWSHIPS AND GRANTS External fellowships and grants: American Association of University Women, American Fellowship 2009-2010 ($30,000). Postdoctoral Fellowship to complete my manuscript Family Matters. Internal fellowships and grants: Small Research and Creative Work Award from ISLA to travel to Puerto Rico and conduct 6 interviews for Listening to Puerto Rico. University of Notre Dame, December 2018. ($2,475) Teaching Beyond the Classroom Interim Grant from the Office of Undergraduate Studies for my Community-Based Learning courses. University of Notre Dame, Fall 2010, Spring 2011, Fall 2011, Spring 2012, Fall 2012, Spring 2013, Spring 2014, Fall 2018, Fall 2019. ISLA/Institute for Latino Studies Course Development Grant for my course Race and Ethnicity in US Latino/a Literature. University of Notre Dame, December 2010. Worldview Initiative (Office of the President) co-sponsorship to cover the cost of Peruvian- American author Daniel Alarcón’s visit to campus on October 2011. University of Notre Dame, December 2010. ISLA Henkels Lecture Grant to fund the visit of Peruvian-American author Daniel Alarcón to campus