Rate My Professor Marika Preziuso

Marika Preziuso is Professor of World Literature and Chair of the Humanities Department at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design. She received her PhD in English from Birkbeck College, University of London in 2009, with a dissertation entitled “Mapping the Lived–Imagined Caribbean.” Her earlier degrees include an MA in Gender and Cultural Studies from Birkbeck College in 2002, an MA in Translation Studies from Università La Sapienza in Rome in 2001, a first-class honors BA in Modern European Languages and Literature, focusing on English, French, and German, from Università degli Studi di Salerno in 2000, and a Diploma in English and American Literature from the University of Kent at Canterbury in 1998. Preziuso joined the Massachusetts College of Art and Design in Fall 2012 as Assistant Professor of World Literature in the Department of Liberal Arts, advancing to full professor and assuming the role of department chair.

Her research focuses on world literatures, Caribbean studies, literary geography, female-authored fiction, cultural studies, postcolonial theory, and diaspora studies. She teaches postcolonial and world literatures, creative writing workshops, and humanities courses integrated with studio practice. Key publications include the monograph Migrant Identities of «Creole Cosmopolitans»: Transcultural Narratives of Contemporary Postcoloniality (Peter Lang, 2014); “Literary Authorship and the Diasporic Imagination” in The Routledge Companion to Anglophone Caribbean Literature (Routledge, 2011); “Is America Really Full? A Conversation with Artist Wangechi Mutu” (Transition Magazine, 2020); “On fracturing and healing the conventions of language: A Conversation with M. NourbeSe Philip” (SX salon, 2016); and “Postcolonial Imaginations: Approaching a 'Fictionable' World through the Novels of Maryse Condé and Wilson Harris” (Annals of the Association of American Geographers). Additional contributions feature analyses and interviews on works by Edwidge Danticat, Achy Obejas, and others. As chair, she emphasizes the power of differences as catalysts for connection, understanding, and growth in learning, and organizes initiatives like Creative Counterpoints.