Dr. Mary Ann Gosser-Esquil铆n
Ph.D., Yale University
Professor of Spanish and Caribbean Literature
Office Phone: 561-297-0612
E-mail: gosser@fau.edu听
Areas of Expertise:听Literature of the French- and Spanish-Speaking Caribbean
Mary Ann Gosser-Esquil铆n is a Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature. She completed her A.B. degree in French at Bryn Mawr College, PA; her license and 尘补卯迟谤颈蝉别 in Comparative Literature at the Universit茅 de Provence I, Aix-en-Provence; and her doctorate in Comparative Literature at Yale University. Her areas of interest encompass the literatures of the French- and Spanish-speaking Caribbean. She has taught at Rutgers University; at Denis Diderot, Universit茅 de Paris VII; and at the University of the West Indies, Mona Campus, Jamaica, as a visiting Fulbright Scholar.
Her teaching awards at 大象传媒 include the Alumni Association Faculty Talon Award, the Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching (2001-2 and 1994-95), the Award for Excellence and Innovation in Undergraduate Advising (2012), and the 大象传媒 Division of Student Affairs Vice President鈥檚 Diamond Award for a Faculty鈥檚 Outstanding Contribution to Student Affairs (2018).
She is President of 大象传媒's Chapter 128, Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi.
She is also a member of the editorial board of Sargasso: A Journal of Caribbean Literature, Language and Culture.
As the University Honors Coordinator, she will be happy to help you with Honors in the various majors offered by our Department.
Majors in LLCL who meet the following criteria will be eligible to pursue honors in French, Linguistics, Spanish, or Italian
- Student has already completed at least 9 upper-division credits in the major, including FOL 3880, but fewer than 100 credits toward the degree
- Student has earned a minimum overall GPA of 3.2
- Student has earned a minimum overall GPA of 3.5 in the major
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Selected Publications
. Cambria Press, forthcoming Spring 2023.
鈥淟as ind贸mitas a toda brida: esbozo de una aproximaci贸n ecofeminista a la obra de Maya Islas y Alina Galliano.鈥 Entre islas: la imaginaci贸n de Magali Alabau, Alina Galliano, Lourdes Gil, Maya Islas e Iraida Iturralde. Ed. Elena M. Mart铆nez y Francisco Soto. Aduana Vieja, 2018. 246-68.
鈥淭alk about a Little Ecocritical Culture: Guadeloupe as a Toxic island?鈥 Sargasso 1/2听 (2016-17): 87-107.
鈥淢anicom, Jacqueline.鈥 Dictionary of Caribbean and Afro-Latin American Biography. Ed. Franklin W. Knight and Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Vol. 4. Oxford UP, 2016. 183-85.
鈥淓cofeminist Discourse and Fluid Lyrical Sexualities: Julia de Burgos鈥檚 R铆o Grande de Lo铆za.鈥 Journal of Language and Sexuality 5:2 (2016): 155-81.
鈥淢ayra Montero y Mayra Santos-Febres, 驴ser谩n de un mismo p谩jaro las dos alas?鈥 Un pueblo disperso: dimensiones sociales y culturales de la di谩spora cubana. Ed. Jorge Duany. Valencia: Aduana Vieja Eidtorial, 2014. 299-316.
鈥淓x-centric Culinary Journeys: Consumption and Simulacra in Puerto Rican Literature.鈥 CUALLI Latin American and Iberian Food Studies Review (2013):58-81.
鈥淐aribbean Biota: Taming the Beasts and Tending the Gardens.鈥 Journal of Caribbean Literatures 7.1 (2013): 105-22.
"Looking for Zombis in All the Wrong Places: Mayra Montero's La trenza de la Hermosa luna." Hispanet 5 (2012). 听
"Del rojo de su sombra de Mayra Montero: cruzando fronteras." Letras Hispanas Revista de Literatura y Cultura 7 (2010). 听
"El consumo del cuerpo travesti en Sirena Selena vestida de pena de Mayra Santos-Febres." PALARA: Publication of the Afro-Latin / American Research Association 14 (2010): 42-53.
"Rec贸nditas ra铆ces raciales y culturales en La casa de la laguna de Rosario Ferr茅.鈥 Alba de Am茅rica 27.51 and 52 (2008): 245-57.
"Caribbean Poetics of the Erotic in Mayra Montero's In the Palm of Darkness." NewMango Season 1.2 (2008): 149-58.
"Puerto Ricans Searching for Their Roots: Afro-Caribbean Routes in Olga Nolla." CLA Journal 1.4 (2007): 418-35.
"La m茅nagerie caribe帽a: algunas bestias y varios animales." Monographic Review / Revista Monogr谩fica 20 (2005): 45-58.
"Rosario Ferr茅 y Olga Nolla: 驴manuscritos reconceptualizando la naci贸n?" Confluencia 19.2 (2004): 58-68. 听
"Marie (Vieux) Chauvet y Myriam Warner-Vieyra diarios demenciales o escrituras esculcantes." G茅nero y cultura en Am 茅rica Latina: arte, historia y estudios de g茅nero. Comp. Luzelena Guti茅rrez Velasco. M茅xico, D.F.: Colegio de M茅xico, 2003. 177-87.
"Nanas negras: The Silenced Women in Rosario Ferr茅 and Olga Nolla." Centro Journal of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies 14.2 (2002): 49-63.
"Ana Lydia Vega's Falsas cr贸nicas del Sur: Reconstruction and Revision of Puerto Rico鈥檚 Past." A Twice-Told Tale: Reinventing the Encounter in Iberian/Iberian American Literature and Film. Ed. Santiago Juan-Navarro and Theodore Robert Young. Newark: U of Delaware P, 2001. 193-209. 听
"La transculturaci贸n social y racial: 驴treta posmoderna de Ana Lydia Vega?" Chasqui 29.2 (2000): 108-21. 听
"Marie Chauvet and Edwidge Danticat: Dramatic Narratives or Haitian Danses macabres." Performance and Text in Caribbean Literature and Art. Spec. issue of Sargasso (1999): 76-93.
"Rosario Ferr茅: Voice of the Writer, Voice of the Translator." Journal of West Indian Literature 8.2 (1999): 91-99. 听
"A Puerto Rican Case of Desire and Despair: Rosario Ferr茅's The House on the Lagoon." JAISA 3.2 (1998) 23-33.
"Caribbean Identities Reconstructed and Redefined in Women's Narrative Texts: Marie Chauvet, Myriam Warner-Vieyra, and Ana Lydia Vega." Latin America Issues: The Caribbean(s) Redefined 13 (1997) 15-36.
"The Archeology of (Writing) the Body: Severo Sardu's El Cristo de la rue Jacob." Hacia un nuevo canon literario. Ed. Jo-Anne Engelbert and Dianne Bono. Hanover, NH: Ediciones del Norte, 1995. 121-31.
"Textualidad y sensualidad compartidas en 'El regalo' de Rosario Ferr茅." Alba de Am茅rica 11.20-21 (1993): 199-210.
"Cobra: Writing Is the Art of Ellipsis and Digression." Critical Essays on the Literatures of Spain and Spanish America. Ed. Luis T. Gonz谩lez-del- Valle and Julio Baena. Boulder: Publications of the Society of Spanish and Spanish-American Studies, 1991. 111-20. 听