Marisel Moreno

Rev. John A. O’Brien Associate Professor of Latina/o Literature
Romance Languages and Literatures

Research Interests

US Latina/o Literature, Hispanic Caribbean Literature, Afro-Latina/os, US Central American Literature, Gender, Race and Ethnicity, Community-Based Learning

Biography

Marisel Moreno Ph.D. is the Rev. John A. O’Brien Associate Professor of Latina/o Literature in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at the University of Notre Dame. She was a recipient of the American Association of University Women Fellowship in 2009-2010. Her first book, Family Matters: Puerto Rican Women Authors on the Island and the Mainland, was published by the University of Virginia Press in 2012. In 2011 she received the Indiana Governor’s Award for Service-Learning and in 2016 she received the Sheedy Excellence in Teaching Award given by Notre Dame’s College of Arts and Letters.

Prof. Moreno’s teaching and research interests include Latina/o-Caribbean authors (Puerto Rican, Dominican, and Cuban authors in the US), as well as Afro-Latina/o and U.S. Central American cultural production. Issues of race, ethnicity, gender, and class are central to her work. Her articles have been published in Hispanic Review, Latino Studies, Studies in American Fiction, Afro-Hispanic Review, CENTRO, The Latino(a) Research Review, MELUS, Hispanic Journal, and Sargasso, among others. Her book chapter "Keeping It Real: Bridging US Latino/a Literature and Community Through Student Engagement" was published in Civic Engagement in Diverse Latinx Communities: Learning From Social Justice Partnerships in Action (Peter Lang 2018). She has co-created and co-organized, with Thomas F. Anderson, the online awareness micro-course Listening to Puerto Rico, a collaboration between the Universities of Notre Dame and Michigan, which is based on interviews filmed in Puerto Rico in June 2018 with survivors of the Hurricane.

In Spring 2012 she co-organized and co-curated with Thomas F. Anderson an exhibit on Puerto Rican graphic art at the Snite Museum, and co-authored the exhibit catalog Art at the Service of the People: Posters and Books from Puerto Rico’s Division of Community Education / Arte al servicio del pueblo: Carteles y libros de la División de Educación de la Comunidad de Puerto Rico. This exhibit traveled to California Lutheran University in 2017, and is on display at the National Museum of Puerto Rican Arts & Culture from August 2018 through March 2019.

Prof. Moreno is a Faculty Fellow at the Institute for Latino Studies, the Helen Kellogg Institute for International Studies, and the Kaneb Center, and is 132675 in Gender Studies and Africana Studies. She is currently working on her second book project, provisionally titled Crossing Waters: Undocumented Migration in the Cultural Production of the Hispanic Caribbean and Its Diaspora.