Marika Preziuso
Title: Assistant Professor
Degrees: University of London, UK. PhD English, 2009.
University of London MA, Gender and Cultural Studies, 2002.
Università La Sapienza, Rome, Italy, MA, Translation Studies, 2001.
Università di Salerno, Italy.
BA Modern European Languages and Literature (English, French and German) 2000.
University of Kent at Canterbury, UK. Diploma, English and American Literature, June 1998.
Fields of Teaching Experience: Anglophone and
Francophone Caribbean Literature;Latino Literature;
Postcolonial Literature; World Literature; Women's
Studies; Developmental Writing;
Selected Publications:
Book Length Projects: Perspectives on the ‘Migrant
Cosmopolitans'. Edited collection. Peter Lang Postcolonial
Series Publishers (forthcoming)
Published Articles and book chapters:
"Liberating Border and Sensual Veils: Edwidge Danticat's
Poetics of Haiti's ‘Vulnerability'," Academica Press, Latin
American Studies: Critiques of Contemporary Cinema,
Literatures,Politics and Revolution, edited by David
Gallagher, April 1 2012.
P. Noxolo and M. Preziuso, "Postcolonial Imaginations:
Approaching a ‘Fictionable' World through the Novels of
Maryse Condé and Wilson Harris," Annals of the Association
of American Geographers, December 14, 2011.
"Literary Authorship and the Diasporic Imagination: Julia
Alvarez's In the Time of the Butterflies and Junot Diaz's
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao," Alison Donnell
and Michael Bucknor (eds.), The Routledge Companion
to Anglophone Caribbean Literatures, London, June 2011.
"Llevando el Velo y Cruzando la Frontera: Geografías
Imaginarias en The Farming of Bones por Edwidge
Danticat," Hipertexto, University of Texas-Pan American,
no.12, Summer 2010 (On-line).
"Mapping the Lived-Imagined Caribbean: Postcolonial
Geographies in the Literature of the ‘Diasporic' Caribbean,"
Journal of Intercultural Studies, vol. 31 issue 2, April 2010.
"Do I belong here? Images of Belonging and Cultural Hybridity
in Erna Brodber's Myal, Velma Pollard's Homestretch and Caryl
Phillips's Cambridge," Journal of Caribbean Literatures,
vol. IV, no. 1.
Published Interviews:
"Interview with Maryse Condé" (in French and English), 25th
Anniversary Issue of Sargasso, August 2011.
"Interview with bell hooks" (in English and translated into
Italian), Kuma' - online journal ed. Armando Gnisci, Università
La Sapienza, Rome, Italy, no.12, October 2006.