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Kara Morillo
Assistant Teaching Professor, Writing Studies, College of Humanities and Social Sciences
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B.A., English, Montclair State University
M.A., English, State University of New York, University at Buffalo
Ph.D., English Language and Literature, University of Maryland, College Park
Dissertation: "The U.S. Latina Boom: The Formation of a Feminist Literary Movement, 1984-2000."
Invited Speaker, “Honoring the Latinx Arts in Our Lives: Learning History, Creating the Future.” 26 September 2018. Carlos M. Ortiz Memorial Annual Lecture, Montclair State University, New Jersey.
Invited Speaker, “From the Margins to the Center: Understanding Bilingualism in US Literature,” 9 June 2016. The National Foreign Language Center, U. of Maryland-College Park.
Guest Lecturer, “Understanding the U.S. Latina Literary Boom in Historical Context.” 4 March 2015. Presented in the graduate seminar “U.S. Latina/o Utopias” for Prof. Ana Patricia Rodriguez, Department of Spanish, U. of Maryland-College Park.
PAPERS
“Every Revolution Needs a Chorus: Writing the Transnational Self in Julia Alvarez’s In the Name of Salomé.” Presented 28 May 2016 at the American Literature Association Annual Conference, San Francisco, CA.
“Selling Out: Sandra Cisneros, the Mainstream, and Literary Posterity.” Presented 25 April 2015 at “Latina/o Utopias: Futures, Forms, and the Will of Literature,” the 2nd Biennial Latina/o Literary Theory and Criticism Conference, New York, NY.
Specialization
Culturally informed composition rhetoric, gender and narrative in global literature, U.S. literature 1865-present, U.S. Latinx literatures, multiethnic literature of the U.S.