Rosario Swanson
Associate Professor, School of Arts and Interdisciplinary Studies
Dr. Rosario Swanson specializes in 20th-century Latin American literature, women writers, Afro-Latin American writers, and the literature of Equatorial Guinea. Her research and teaching focus on literature and culture as a form of resistance, and on questions of representation through the lens of language, poetry, literature, and cultural production.
She is the author of Y cuál es mi lugar señor entre tus actos: El drama de Rosario Castellanos (2018), a study of the 20th-century Mexican feminist writer and intellectual, and her work has appeared in Revista Iberoamericana, Hispanic Journal, Hispania, MARGES, and others. She is a reviewer for Humanities and MARLAS (Middle Atlantic Review of Latin American Studies).
Her creative work includes the one-person show Metamorfosis ante el espejo de obsidiana, which won the Victoria Urbano Prize for best play from the Asociación de Estudios de Género y Sexualidades.
Dr. Swanson teaches in both the Writing, Literature & Publishing Department and the Marlboro Institute Honors Program.
Courses
- First-Year Honors Seminar 1
- Introduction to Literary Studies
- Topics in Latin American Literature
- Honors Writing Symposium
- First-Year Honors Seminar 2
- Top Mult Genres and Hybrid Frm
- MFA Thesis
- Race and Resistance in U.S. Literature
- Directed Study
Academic Work
- 2018, “¿Y cuál es mi lugar señor entre tus actos?”: El drama de Rosario Castellanos, New York: Peter Lang, Latin American Interdisciplinary Series
- 2023, “‘Aquí, los jicalpestles de mejilla pintada’: Discurso etnológico, trascendencia y compromiso social en la poesía temprana de Rosario Castellanos,” POESÍA EN DOS TIEMPOS: Creadoras y académicas. E. Krauze & G. Manzano Añorve (Eds.), México City: UNAM
- 2017, “Sung with ink and paper: Nicomedes Santa Cruz and the African strand in Peru,” Hispania Vol. 100.1
- 2016, “‘Soy igual que vosotras. Solo me aparta un signo arbitrario y terrible…’: Feminismo, nacionalismo y malinchismo en la Judith (1952) de Rosario Castellanos,” Revista Iberoamericana. Vol. LXXXII, Núm. 254