Lisa Ortiz-Vilarelle
Associate Professor
Lisa Ortiz-Vilarelle ( Ph.D. Wayne State University ) specializes in Multiethnic American Literature and Autobiographical Studies with specific interest in narratives of exile and immigration. Her research interests center on intersections of anthropology and literary studies as well as children's and young adult literature. She is also on the faculty of the United States Studies minor and the Latin American and Caribbean Studies minor. She regularly teaches Global Women Writers, Literature by Latinas and Latin American Women, Issues in Multicultural Literature and other courses in American and women's literature. She is currently at work on a book about autoethnographic narrative and the implications of anthropological conventions in literary study entitled Braided Lives and Usable Pasts: Ethnographic Modes in the Autobiography of Ethnic-American Women .
Selected Publications
- "Re-membering the Past: Weaving Tales of Loss and Cultural Inheritance in Edwidge Danticat's Krik? Krak!. " The Journal of Haitian Studies (JOHS) special issue on Edwidge Danticat Fall 2001, V. 7, No. 2
- "'Becoming a Butterfly': Julia Alvarez's In the Time of the Butterflies as Autoethnography" forthcoming at a/b: Auto/Biography Studies 19.1 (Winter 2005)
- "'The Place My Grandmother Made': A Genealogy of Women's Resistance Michelle Cliff's Abeng and No Telephone to Heaven " forthcoming in MELUS, Journal of the Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States
