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Join us for one of our Fall Open Houses and experience our beautiful, riverfront campus firsthand. Learn more about Marist’s academic experience, the admissions process, and get an inside look at life as a Red Fox! You'll have the opportunity to hear directly from students, faculty, and staff about what makes the Marist Community so special. Register Below:
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Dr. Ivette Romero
Professor of Spanish; Coordinator of Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Education
Ph.D. French and Latin American Literature
Cornell University; B.A. French Language and Literature
University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez
Research Interests / Areas of Focus
Caribbean Literature and Visual Arts, Latin American Literature and Cinema, Francophone Literature and Cinema, Cultural Studies, Women's Studies
Selected Publications
Books
Displacements and Transformations in Caribbean Cultures [Essays]. Edited with Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, Spring 2008.
Women at Sea: Travel Writing and the Margins of Caribbean Discourse [Essays]. Edited with Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert. New York: Palgrave/St. Martin's Press, 2001.
Book Chapters
"Moving Metaphors: The Representation of AIDS in Caribbean Literature and Visual Arts." Displacements and Transformations in Caribbean Cultures. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, Spring 2008.
"Travelers Possessed: Generic Hybrids and the Caribbean." Between Anthropology and Literature: Interdisciplinary Discourse. London: Routledge Press, 2002. 248-66.
"El drama del silencio: Renacimiento ritual en la literatura caribena." Cultural (Con) fusion? Trans-Caribbean Performers and Performance. Rio Piedras: Caribe 2000 Series (2002). 49-63.
"Women Adrift: Madwomen, Matriarchs, and the Caribbean." Women at Sea: Travel Writing and the Margins of Caribbean Discourse. New York: Palgrave/St. Martin's Press, 2001. 135-60.
"Sorcerers, She-Devils, and Shipwrecked Women: Writing Religion in French Caribbean Literature." Sacred Possessions: Vodou, Santeria, Obeah, and the Caribbean. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1997, pp. 248-66.
Articles
Introduction to New Mango Season: Journal of Caribbean Women's Writing.1.2. Goldsmiths College, University of London (Spring 2008):
"Danzon." Chasqui: Revista de Literatura Latinoamericana. 36.2 (November 2007): 230-32.
"Mary Ann Clark's Where Men are Wives and Mothers Rule: Santeria Practices and Their Gender Implications." Journal of Church and State. 49.1 (Winter 2007): 137-38.
"The Black Womb: Reconstructing Families in Caribbean Testimonial Literature." Revista del CESLA (Journal of the Center for Latin American Studies, University of Warsaw) No. 9 (2006): 115-34.
"Mary Seacole." Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism. Series: Volume 147. Farmington Hills: Gale, 2005. 236-43.
"The Umbilical Cord: Motherhood and Displacement in the Work of Jacqueline Manicom." Mango Season: Journal of Caribbean Women's Writing. 13.1 (2000): 32-42.
"Homebodies and Heroines: Women in French Caribbean Testimonial Narrative" Anales del Caribe. 16-18 (1998): 121-27.
Selected Presentations
May 26-June 1, 2008: "Ojos asi: The Exotic Other in Caribbean Literature." Caribbean Studies Association Conference, San Andres, Colombia.
September 5-8, 2007: "AIDS, Blame, and Religiosity in Caribbean Literature and Arts." Latin American Studies Association XXVII International Congress, Montreal, Canada.
May 28-June 1, 2007: "An (Un)natural Disaster?: AIDS, Loss, and Trauma in Caribbean Art and Literature." 32nd Annual Caribbean Studies Association Conference, Salvador da Bahia, Brazil.
March 15-18, 2006: "The Exotic of the Exotic: Caribbean Orientalism in Puerto Rican Women's Writing." Latin American Studies Association XXVI International Congress, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
May 30-June 3, 2006: "Four-by-fours and Pickup Trucks: Status Symbols in U. S. Caribbean Chick-Lit." 10th Anniversary International Conference of the Association of Caribbean Writers and Scholars, Hollywood, Florida.
March 29-April 1, 2005: "The Automobile as an 'Isle Remote' in Caribbean Literature." 24th Annual West Indian Literature Conference, University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico.
November 1-5, 2005: "Plantation Legacy and the Role of Education in the Twentieth Century: Dany Bebel-Gisler and Francoise Ega's Testimonial Literature." ICCL 6th International Conference on Caribbean Literature, St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands.
April 10-12, 2003: "Maryse Conde and the Permeability of Boundaries." The Caribbean Unbound Franklin College Conference on Caribbean Literature and Culture, Lugano, Switzerland.
November 7-9, 2002: "Spiritual Migrations in Caribbean Literature." The 4th Annual Interdisciplinary Symposium: Global Diasporas and the United States, Boca Raton, Florida.
November 21-23, 2002: "Cruzando fronteras: La permeabilidad de mundos en la literatura caribena." Segundo Congreso Internacional: Escritura, Individuo y Sociedad, University of Puerto Rico-Arecibo, Puerto Rico.
April 2-9, 2002: "Death by AIDS: Aesthetic Responses of Caribbean Artists." 8th International Caribbean Women Writers and Scholars Conference, Trois-Ilets, Martinique.
September 6-8, 2001: "Namuni y Ninina: La representacion de la mujer negra en Dora Alonso y Maria Josefa de Granados." Latin American Studies Association Congress, Washington, D.C.
June 4-7, 2001: "Responses to AIDS and Homophobia in Puerto Rican Visual Art." (Re) thinking Caribbean Culture, University of the West Indies, Cave Hill, Barbados.
September 29-October 1, 2000: "Empty Beds: The Representation of AIDS in Caribbean Literature and Art." Caribbean Literary Studies Congress, University of Miami, Boca Raton, Florida.
April 2-7, 2000: "Suma: Dora Alonso y su legado historico en el nuevo milenio." 7th International Caribbean Women Writers and Scholars Conference, University of Puerto Rico-Mayaguez, Puerto Rico.
October 30-31, 1999: "El drama del silencio: Renacimiento ritual en la literatura caribena." Caribbean 2000 Symposium, University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico.
November 15-20, 1998: "Agua pasada: Abarcando un siglo con Dora Alonso." IV Congreso de Creacion Femenina: 100 Anos de Transculturacion, Universidad Central de Bayamon, Bayamon, Puerto Rico.
May 18-22, 1998: "'Duskier Skin Than Theirs:' Mobility, Race, and the Construction of Caribbeanness in Mary Seacole and Francoise Ega." 6th International Conference of Caribbean Women Writers and Scholars, Grande Anse, Grenada.
Awards and Honors
Faculty Recognition Award for Scholarly Work (2003)
NEH Summer Institute (University of Puerto Rico) (1997)
