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Marilyn Miller
Associate Professor - Spanish & Portuguese
Contact Info
mgmiller@tulane.edu
Department Affiliation
Spanish & Portuguese
- B.A., Biola University, English, 1983
- M.A., University of Washington, English Literature, 1986
- M.A., University of Oregon, Comparative Literature, 1991
- Ph.D., University of Oregon, Comparative Literature, 1995
- Sizeler Professor in Jewish Studies, Tulane, 2017-
- Associate Professor, Tulane, 2005-
- Assistant Professor, Tulane University, 2001-2005
- Visiting Assistant Professor, Universidad de Puerto Rico, Río Piedras, 2002
- Assistant Professor, Catholic University of America, 1997-2001
- Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Oregon, 1998
Research & Teaching Specializations: New World and Trans-Atlantic Studies, Jewish Latin American Studies, Colonial and Postcolonial Literatures, Race and Hybridity, Caribbean Discourse, Francophone and Anglophone Literature, Slavery and Text, African Diasporic Literatures and Poetics in the Americas, Translation Studies, Postcolonial Theory, Caribbean and Trans-American studies
Related Experience- Co-Coordinator, Tropical Exposures: Photography, Film and Visual Culture in a Caribbean Frame conference, Tulane University, 2016
- Resident Co-Director, Tulane Summer in Argentina, 2016
- Resident Director, Tulane Semester in Cuba, 2012, 2015
- Chair, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Tulane University, 2009-2012
- Member of Editorial and Review Boards for “Comparative Literature,” “Revista de Estudios Hispánicos,” and “Latin American Music Review,” “Latino Studies,” and the Palgrave Series in Latin American Music and Literature
- Coordinator, Virtual Caribbeans Conference, Tulane University, 2008
- Co-coordinator for the symposium “Re/Viewing the Revolution: Fresh Perspectives on Cuba, 1959-2009,” Tulane University, 2009
- Director, Latin American and Latino Studies Program, Catholic University of America, 1997-2001
- Sizeler Professorship in Jewish Studies, 2017-2020
- Fulbright Flexible Teaching-Research Fellowship in Argentina, 2016-2017
- Stone Center Summer Research Fellowship, 2012, 2013
- Lurcy Research Fellowships, 2008, 2009, 2013
- Yale University Library Research Fellowship, 2005
- Deep South Regional Humanities Center Research Grant, 2005
- NEH Summer Institute Participant, ‘The Invisible Giant: The Place of Brazil in Latin American Studies,‘ The Ohio State University, 2001
- NEH Summer Institute Participant, ‘Roots: The African Background of American Culture, through the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade,‘ University of Virginia, 1998
- Spanish
- Portuguese
- French
- Cuba
- Puerto Rico
- Argentina
- Ecuador
- Forthcoming. “Racial Pathology, Resistance, and Recovery in the Queloides and Drapetomanía Exhibitions.” Afro-Hispanic Review.
- 2017. “Movimiento y estasis en los viajes interamericanos de José Martí.” Boletín de Literatura Comparada 42.
- 2017. “Roberto Diago and the Past in Present Times” ArtonCuba, September-November.
- 2017. “El funyi de Gardel. Cada día luce mejor.” In Pasado de moda, edited by Regina Root and Susan Hallstead, Ampersand, 172-187.
- 2016. “Sardonic Recurrence and Barking Dogs in Julio Cortázar‘s Library of Tangos.” Hispanic Review 84(1): 1-23.
- 2015. “Padura transatlántico.” A contracorriente 13(1): 105-27.
- 2015. “Ringside with Cuba‘s National Poet.” Hispania 98(1): 123-38.
- 2014. Tango Lessons. Movement, Sound, Dance and Image in Contemporary Practice. Editor. Durham: Duke University Press.
- 2014. “Introduction: The Tango Continuum” and “Picturing Tango.” In Tango Lessons: Movement, Sound, Dance and Image in Contemporary Practice. Marilyn Miller, editor. Durham: Duke University Press.
- 2013. “Lives and Afterlives of José María Silva‘s Gardel Portraits.” Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies 22(4): 417-435.
- 2010. “Reading Juan Francisco Manzano in the Wake of Alexander von Humboldt.” Atlantic Studies 7(2): 162-189. Special Issue, “Alexander von Humboldt‘s Transatlantic Personae,” ed. Vera M. Kutzkinski.
- 2008. “‘The Soul Has No Color’ but the Skin Does: Angelitos negros and the Use of Blackface on the Mexican Silver Screen, ca. 1950.” In Global Soundscapes. Mark Slobin, ed. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press. 241-257.
- 2008. “‘Tengo de árabes noble descendencia’: orientalismo y el retorno al país natal en Zafira de Juan Francisco Manzano.” In Moros en la costa. Orientalismo en Latinoamérica. Silvia Nagy-Zekmi, ed. Madrid: Iberoamericana. 91-110.
- 2005. “Slavery, Cimarronaje and Poetic Refuge in Nancy Morejón.” Afro-Hispanic Review. 24 (2): 103-25.
- 2005. “Rebeldia narrativa, resistencia poetica y expresion ‘libre’ en Juan Francisco Manzano.” Revista Iberoamericana. LXXI (211).
- 2004. Rise and Fall of the Cosmic Race: The Cult of Mestizaje in Latin America. Austin: University of Texas Press.
Recently-Taught Latin American-Related Courses: Latin American Cultural Studies, Film and Literature in Latin America, Modern Readings in Spanish
Number of Dissertations or Theses Supervised in the Past 5 Years: 6
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