Sophie Maríñez
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SOPHIE MARÍÑEZ
Department of Modern LanguagesBorough of Manhattan Community College
City University of New York
199 Chambers Street, S601E
New York, New York 10007 / 1 East 35th street, apt. 21C
New York, NY 10016
(646) 382-8818
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RESEARCH INTERESTS
French Caribbean studies; Haitian-Dominican relations; Haitian and Dominican diasporas in the U.S.; early modern French studies; literary translation.
EDUCATION
Ph.D. in French, 2010. The Graduate School and University Center, City University of New York. Dissertation title: Gender, Architecture, and Self-Construction in the Works of Mlle de Montpensier (1627-1693). Dissertation Advisor: Domna C. Stanton. Reading Committee: Mary McLeod (Columbia University), Nancy K. Miller, and Francesca C. Sautman. Defended with Honors.
M.A. in Liberal Studies, 2003: M.A. in Liberal Studies. Empire State College, State University of New York. Thesis title: Dominican-American Identity: a Literary and Anthropological Perspective. Thesis co-directors: Meredith Brown, Chair of Social Policy at Empire State College, and Silvio Torres-Saillant, Director of the Latino-Latin American Studies Program at Syracuse University.
Certificate in International Relations, 1993. Facultad de Ciencias Jurídicas de la Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
B.A. in Translation (English, French, and Spanish), 1992. Universidad APEC, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. Thesis: Translation into Spanish of Indira Gandhi, by Francelia Butler and Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. (New York: Chelsea House Publishers, c1986, 115 pp.)
ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT
Borough of Manhattan Community College, City University of New York, Assistant Professor of French and Spanish, August 2012-present.
Vassar College, Visiting Assistant Professor of French, July 2010-June 2012
Hunter College, City University of New York, Adjunct Assistant Professor, January 2010-July 2010; Adjunct Lecturer, August 2008-Dec. 2009; January 2003-August 2006
Borough of Manhattan Community College, City University of New York, Adjunct Assistant Professor, January 2010-July 2010; Adjunct Lecturer, August 2008-Dec. 2009.
GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS, HONORS, AND AWARDS
CUNY Faculty Fellowship Publication Program (Spring 2016).
Faculty Advisor Achievement Award, Student Government Association, Borough of Manhattan Community College (Fall 2015)
BMCC Enhanced Learning in the Classroom (ELIC) grant for guest speaker Dr. Claudy René to discuss the Haitian Revolution in my class French 435 The Representation of the Other in Early Modern French Literature (Spring 2014).
PSC-CUNY Traditional B Research Award ($6,000), 2013-2014, for book project Building Subjects: Women, Castles and Self-Construction in Early Modern France.
PSC-CUNY Traditional B Research Award ($6,000), 2012-2013, for book project Building Subjects: Women, Castles and Self-Construction in Early Modern France.
National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Summer Stipend award ($6,000), 2012.
The Carolyn G. Heilbrun Dissertation Prize, awarded by the Women’s Studies Certificate Program to “an outstanding feminist dissertation in the humanities” completed that year at the Graduate Center, 2010.
Dean K. Harrison Tuition Fellowship. CUNY, The Graduate Center, 2008-2009.
The Carole & Morton Olshan Dissertation Fellowship. CUNY, The Graduate Center. A competitive dissertation writing grant ($15,000), 2007-2008.
Marandon Fellowship. Société des Professeurs Français et Francophones d’Amérique (SPFFA). A grant for dissertation research in France ($2,000), 2007-2008.
Doctoral Student Research Grant. CUNY, The Graduate Center. A grant for dissertation research in France ($4,500), 2007-2008.
CUNY Writing Fellowship. CUNY, The Graduate Center, 2006-2008.
Summa Cum Laude Gold Medal. Etha Sigma Phi’s National Latin Exam, 2006.
Magnet President Fellowship. CUNY, The Graduate Center, 2004-2006.
Graduate Teaching Fellowship. CUNY, The Graduate Center, 2003-2004.
Dean K. Harrison Tuition Fellowship. CUNY, The Graduate Center, 2002-2003.
Underrepresented Graduate Fellowship, SUNY, Empire State College, 2001-2002.
Award as Best Student in School of Foreign Languages, Universidad APEC, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, 1990.
SCHOLARSHIP
Book Chapters
“The Quisqueya Diaspora: The Emergence of Latina/o Literature from Hispaniola” in The Cambridge History of Latina/o Literature, Cambridge University Press (Fall 2016)
Peer-Reviewed Articles
“Mito y feminismo en Marassá y la Nada de Alanna Lockward,” Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos, 40.2 (Summer 2016)
“Alegorías de una hermandad atormentada: Haití en la literatura dominicana,” in"Quisqueya is my lakay": Challenging de-nationalization, waving the national identity. Special Issue on the Haitian-Dominican Conflict. Memorias. Revista Digital de Historia y Arqueología desde el Caribe, Barranquilla, Colombia. (Spring 2016.)
"Straighten Those Curls! Style, Gender, and Morality in Seventeenth-Century French Treatises of Architecture." Papers on French Seventeenth Century Literature 49:76 (2012): 13-33.
“Poética de la Relación en Dominicanish de Josefina Báez.” La Torre, año X, núm. 35 (enero-marzo 2005). Revista de la Universidad de Puerto Rico, número coordinado por Néstor E. Rodríguez: 149-160.
Encyclopedia Entries
“Michele Voltaire Marcelin.” Dictionary of Caribbean and Afro-Latin American Biography. Oxford University Press (Spring 2016).
“Hermaphrodites.” Encyclopedia of Sex and Gender. Eds. Malti-Douglas, Fedwa, Jamsheed Choksy, Judith Roof, and Francesca C. Sautman. New York: Thomson Gale, 2007. pp. 684-686.
“Alvarez, Julia,” “Díaz, Junot,” “Dominican Writers in the United States,” and “Espaillat, Rhina.” Encyclopedia of Latinos and Latinas in the United States. Eds. Suzanne Oboler and Deena J. González. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005.
Book Reviews
Sara Galletti, Le palais du Luxembourg de Marie de Médicis, 1611-1631, Paris: Picard, 2012, in: sehepunkte 13 (2013), Nr. 12 [15.12.2013], URL: http://www.sehepunkte.de/2013/12
“Alegoría de una hermandad atormentada en Marassá y la Nada de Alanna Lockward.” Rev. Hoy, August 17, 2012. http://hoy.com.do/alegoria-de-una-hermandad-atormentada-en-marassa-y-la-nada-de-alanna-lockward/
“El equilibrio de los sexos." Rev. of Song of the Water Saints, by Nelly Rosario. Ventana: Sección Cultural del Listín Diario March 24, 2002: 3.
“Dominicanish: La translocalización de los símbolos.” Rev. of Dominicanish, by Josefina Baez. Ventana: Sección Cultural del Listín Diario June 17, 2001: 10. Reprinted in Agulha Revista de Cultura: http://www.jornaldepoesia.jor.br/ag21baez.htm
Other: Citations of my work
Claudy Delné, “Réevaluer la représentation littéraire de la migration haïtienne en République dominicaine et le massacre des Haïtiens de 1937 chez Jacques Stephen Alexis, René Philoctète et Edwidge Danticat” in Dieulermesson Petit Frere et al, eds. Legs et Littérature: Migration et Littérature de la Diaspora, 2015, pp.15-34, cited in p. 31.
Ramón Antonio Victoriano-Martínez, Rayanos y Dominicanyorks: la dominicanidad del siglo XXI. Pittsburg: University of Pittsburg, 2014, cited in p. 155-156.
Rita de Maeseneer ““Aprende el difícil”.Junot Díaz, Josefina Báez y las literaturas nacionales” Pasavento: Revista de Estudios Hispánicos (2:2), 2014, pp. 345-357. Cited in pp. 351-353
Fernando Valerio-Holguin, “Part II, Cultural Forms” in Charles Tatum, ed. Encyclopedia of Latino Culture: From Calaveras to Quinceañeras, Santa Barbara, Greenwood, 2014, cited in p. 590.
Danny Mendez, Narratives of Migration and Displacement in Dominican Literature. New York: Routledge, 2012, cited in p. 15.
Kathleen Robin Hart, “Strangers to Ourselves: Animality and Theory of Mind in Honoré de Balzac’s “A Passion in the Desert,” Style: Volume 46, Nos. 3 & 4, Fall/Winter 2012, cited in p. 408.
Néstor E. Rodríguez, “Dominicanish” (n.d) Dominicanaenmiami.com (http://dominicanaenmiami.com/?p=12783_
Liamar Duran Almaraza, “Staging Transculturation: Border Crossings in Josefina Baez’s Performance Texts”, Caribbean Without Borders: Language, Literature and Culture, eds. Ileana Cortes Santiago, Raquel Puig, and Dorsia Smith. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008, cited in pp. 163.
Lyn Di Iorio Sandin. “Pérez, Loida Maritza.” Encyclopedia of Latinos and Latinas in the United States. Eds. Suzanne Oboler and Deena J. González. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005, pp. 347-348.
Invited Lectures
Presentation of Marassa y la Nada/Marassa and the Nothingness (Penguin), a novel by Alanna Lockward. Barnard College, New York, March 9, 2016
Guest panelist in Black Lives Matter: The Haitian-Dominican Human Rights Crisis, a panel organized by the Centro de Estudios Puertorriqueños and the Department of Africana/Puertorican/Latino Studies at Hunter College, November 18, 2015.
“The ‘Haitian Question’ in the Dominican Republic: Toward New Representations of Haiti in the Dominican Imagination,” Center for Excellence, Teaching, Learning and Service, BMCC, City University of New York, May 15, 2014.
"What's Hair Got to Do with It? Gender, Architecture, and Curls in Early Modern France." Women’s Studies First Friday Event. Vassar College, November 4, 2011.
"From Les Tuileries to Main: Digging French Architecture at Vassar College." A Day at Vassar. Vassar College, October 15, 2011.
Poética e identidad en la literatura de la diáspora dominicana. In "Literatura Dominicana de la Diáspora." V Feria del Libro Dominicano, New York, NY, October 9th, 2011.
"Visiting MALS Ten Years Later: What Worked?"Empire State College, Albany, New York, September 25, 2011.
"Thaël quitta sa maison," a poem in memoriam. Tribute to Édouard Glissant, Graduate Center, City University of New York, March 4, 2011.
"Gender, Architecture, and Self-Construction in the Works of Mlle de Montpensier (1627-1693).” Society for the Study of Women in the Renaissance, The Graduate Center, City University of New York, New York, September 16th, 2010.
"Dominicanish Ten Years later: Breaking Down a Myth of National Identity," Dialogue Dominicanish: A symposium about Dominicanish on the page and on the stage, Rio Gallery, New York, New York, November 7th, 2009.
Conferences Papers
Reaching Out to the Other Side: Haiti in the Literature of the Dominican Diaspora, in “Dialogue in the Making: Narratives on Haiti and the Dominican Republic,” the Caribbean Studies Association Annual Conference, Pétion-Ville, Haiti, June 5-11, 2016.
“The Quisqueya Diaspora: The Emergence of Latina/o Literature from Hispaniola” in Narrating the Haitian Diaspora, the Caribbean Studies Association Annual Conference, Pétion-Ville, Haiti, June 5-11, 2016.
On Traitors and Anti-Dominicans: The Other Price of the Human Rights Crisis in the Dominican Republic, in “The Haitian-Dominican Conflict,” the Caribbean Studies Association Annual Conference, Pétion-Ville, Haiti, June 5-11, 2016.
Alegorías de una hermandad atormentada: La figura de Marassá como modelo simbólico alternativo de relación entre Haití y República Dominicana, “Puentes en construcción: historias alternas de conflicto y solidaridad entre Haití y República Dominicana”. Latin American Studies Association (LASA), New York, NY, May 27-30, 2016.
The Cambridge History of Latino/a Literature: A Round-Table. Latin American Studies Association (LASA). New York, NY, May 27-30, 2016.
The Perejil Massacre in the Dominican Republic and its Sequel in the 21st Century: Impunity and Responsibility, in “ Impunité, Responsabilité et Citoyenneté – Haïti,” a conference organized by the Henri Peyre Institute, The Graduate Center, City University of New York, March 17-18, 2016
Constructing Dreams: Mademoiselle de Montpensier’s Making of Buildings in Early Modern France, in “Makers: Women Artists in the Early Modern Courts of Europe.” Renaissance Studies of America (RSA) Annual Conference. Boston, USA, March 31-April 2, 2016.
Seeking my Sibling: Myth and Fraternité in Alanna Lockward’s Marassá y la Nada. Haitian Studies Association 27th Annual Conference,Haiti in the Global Environment: Presence, Representations, Performances, Montréal, Canada, October 22-24, 2015.
Jacques Viau Renaud: Primera voz poética domínico-haitiana en la literatura dominicana, in “Race and the Colonial Past in Modern Caribbean Literature.” Latin American Studies Association (LASA). San Juan, Puerto Rico, May 27-31, 2015.
Building Subjects: Women and Architecture in Early Modern France. In “Women, Architecture, and Patronage in Early Modern France.” Renaissance Society of America Annual Conference. San Diego, April 4-6. 2013.
What's in a Home: Exile, Architecture, and Self-Construction in the Works of Mlle de Montpensier (1627-1693). In "Women and Exile II: Autobiography--Women narrating their own experience." Renaissance Society of America Annual Conference. Washington, D.C, March 22-24, 2012.
Straighten Those Curls! Style, Gender, and Morality in Seventeenth-Century French Treatises of Architecture. In "Sinful Styles," a Seventeenth-Century French Literature session. MLA 2011 Convention. Los Angeles, California, January 6-9, 2011.
Women’s Castles in Early Modern France: Uncovering Patterns in Female Architectural Traditions. In “Châteaux et Jardins.” The Society for Interdisciplinary French Seventeenth-Century Studies 2010 Annual Conference. University of North Carolina at Charlotte, North Carolina, October 16, 2010.
Minerva, Medusa, and Mlle de Montpensier: Doubling Images of Female Autonomy and Power. In “The Double.” The Society for Interdisciplinary French Seventeenth-Century Studies 2009 Annual Conference. Swarthmore College, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, October 24, 2009.
The Poetics of Architecture in the Castles and Writings of Mlle de Montpensier: Saint-Fargeau, Eu, and Choisy-le-Roy. In “French III: Issues in French Studies: Shapes, Space and other Scapes in the Writings of French Women.” M/MLA 2008 Conference. Minneapolis, Minnesota, November 14, 2008.
Le Royaume de la Lune and other Spaces of Folly: The Role of Madness in the Writings of Mlle de Montpensier. In “French II: Lunacy in Literary and Cinematic Productions.” M/MLA 2007 Conference. Cleveland, Ohio, November 10, 2007.
A Passion for Building: Women, Castles, and Power in Early Modern France, in “Rage, Folie, Désespoir: Excess and the Passions in Early Modern France (1550-1715),” an annual conference organized by the Interdisciplinary Group for Seventeenth-Century French Studies at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. New York, October 5, 2007.
Constructing Homes in Exile: Space and Gender in the Work of Mlle de Montpensier. In “Envisioning Home,” the Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference of the Comparative Literature Department of the Graduate Center, City University of New York. New York, November 4, 2006.
The Aesthetics of the Diverse in ‘Dominicanish.' In “Latina Performances: Space, Body and Politics,” a session held by the Latina/o Focus Group of the Association for Theater in Higher Education (ATHE) 2004 Conference. Toronto, Canada, July 31-August 1.
CREATIVE WORKS
Publications in Peer-Reviewed Literary Journals or Anthologies
“My Father’s Foot Lit a Fire” and “La Camiona,” in Tough Times in America, an anthology edited by Donna Weir-Sole and Pierre Max (forthcoming 2016).
“Sentencia del Infierno I: Poema a los desterrados” and “Sentencia del Infierno III: Soñando en Marassá” in Circum-Caribbean Poetics, a special issue edited by Jana Braziel and Nicasio Urbina. The Cincinnati Romance Review (Volume 40, Spring 2016)
Literary translation into French of “La Marilyn Monroe de Santo Domingo,” a poem by Dominican poet Frank Baez. K1N, a Journal of Literary Translation, University of Ottawa (http://k1nlitra.ca/k1n/article.php?i=MTI0&i2=MTI=)
“Carnival Day in Santo Domingo.” Small Axe Salon 18 (February 2015) (http://smallaxe.net/wordpress3/prose/2015/02/04/poem-by-sophie-marinez/)
Other creative works
Translation into French of Comrade, Bliss Ain't Playing: Camarade Le bonheur ne joue pas. A poetic text for performance, by Josefina Baez. Ay Ombe Productions. http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/2971319. Pub. Feb. 07, 2012.
Thaël quitta sa maison. A poem in tribute to Édouard Glissant. New York: February 2011 http://mondesfrancophones.com/espaces/creolisations/thael-quitta-sa-maison-a-edouard-glissant-in-memoriam/