Marissa L. Ambio
Graduate Student
Marissa received her B.A. from Williams College (2000) and her M.A. from Columbia University (2004). Her research interests include 19th- and 20th-century Latin American literature, with a specific focus on Caribbean and U.S. cultural production. She is currently working on her dissertation proposal on the fin de siglo Spanish-language press of New York. Areas of research will include the intersection of journalism and literature in late 19th C. periodicals, authorship, and the dynamic between English- and Spanish-language presses.
Publications include: "The Authorship of Jicoténcal" (Hispania 88.3 (2005): 445-55) and "Deism and the Authorship of Jicoténcal" (Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage, Volume VI. Ed. Antonia I. Castañeda and A. Gabriel Meléndez. Houston: Arte Público P, 2006. 199-213).
She has also presented at graduate student and professional conferences. Her talks include, "Deism and the Authorship of Jicoténcal" (Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage: The Importance of Region, November 2004);"New Clues in the Debate over Authorship in the Novel of Jicoténcal" (MLA, December 2004); "Comedy and Violence in Cervantes' Don Quijote" (Stony Brook Graduate Student Conference, April 2005); "Cubanía y Choteo: Concerting and Disconcerting Identity in Alejo Carpentier's Concierto Barroco" (International Conference on Caribbean Studies, November 2006).
She was chair of the Planning Committee for the 2006 Columbia-NYU Graduate Student Conference "Subjects in Transit." She was also a recipient of the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship (Wiliams College, 1998). As a Mellon Fellow, she has continued to receive grants from the Mellon Foundation for the completion of her doctoral studies. She has since been invited to speak at Mellon Mays Colloquia at Williams and Wesleyan, and was Assistant to the Coordinator of the Mellon Mays Program at Columbia University (Fall, 2004).
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