English
Marci Carrasquillo
Marci Carrasquillo, Ph.D. (2007)
Assistant Professor of English
Ph.D., University of Oregon, 2006
M.A., University of Oregon, 2002
B.A., University of Connecticut, 2000
Teaching and Research Interests
Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century American Literature (Prose and Poetry)
Ethnic American Literature (Prose and Poetry)
Latina/o Literature and Studies
Women's and Gender Studies
Ethnic Studies
Cultural Studies
American Popular Culture
Marci Carrasquillo is a comparative Americanist specializing in twentieth-century ethnic American and women's literature. A 2005 recipient of a Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowship and author of the article, "Oscar 'Zeta' Acosta's American Odyssey" (forthcoming in the journal, MELUS), currently she is at work revising her dissertation, "'The Perfect Freedom': Travel and Mobility in Contemporary Ethnic American Literature," into a book that explores the ways Latina/o novelists use the figure of the road and, more broadly, of the mythic American frontier, to challenge gender, race, and class assumptions about America and American individuals that underlie the road trip.
Marci Carrasquillo
Mary Berry 214A
515-961-1222
marci.carrasquillo@simpson.edu
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