Rate My Professor Marika Preziuso

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.