Marisol is a second year PhD student in the Romance Languages and Literatures Spanish department, at the University of Michigan. She was trained as an Historian in the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, where she pursued my undergraduate studies. Marisol’s research interests include African migrants’ contemporary literature, cinema and alternative artistic expressions through digital platforms, with special emphasis on Lusophone African diaspora in Portugal and Brazil. More specifically, her work examines the reconstruction of immigrants’ individual and collective identities in the new country and their representations across different cultural productions.
Contact
Location
Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-1275 US
Work
University of Michigan, RLL Department.
Graduate Student Instructor
Designing a syllabus and teaching a new Portuguese course. Portuguese 283. Portuguese for the Professions.
University of Michigan, RLL Department.
Graduate Student Instructor
Taught elementary language course. Spanish 101.
Colegio Nuestra Señora de la Misericordia
Professor
Elementary School teacher for the subject English. High School Professor for the subject History.
Instituto privado Dr Albert Schweitzer
Professor
High School Professor for the subjects: English, History, Civic Education and Argentinean Culture.
Escuela de Educación Media N°1 D.E. N°16 “Rodolfo Walsh”
Professor
High School teaching practices for the subject History.
Lew Languages Institute
Professor of English
Professor of English for private companies and individuals. On site and online courses. Beginner to Advanced level.
Teletech Argentina S.A.
Team Leader
Sales Representative – Bellsouth – Sprint Nextel – HSBC. 2005 to 2008. Real Time Specialist – WFM Team – Western Union. 2008 to 2009. Business Planning Specialist – WFM Team – Best Buy. 2009 to 2011. Team Leader – Global Workforce Management –Brazil. 2011 to 2013
Universidad de Buenos Aires
Research Assistant
Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Filosofia y Letras, History Department, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Seminar “Migración y Desarrollo. Del Estado de Bienestar a la Globalización Neoliberal (1945-2012)”. Teaching and Research Assistant for the seminar. Researching tasks included participation in internal seminars together with discussions of new bibliographical acquisitions. March 2012 to August 2015.
Universidad de Buenos Aires
Research Assistant
Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Filosofia y Letras, History Department, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Seminar in Palestinian Studies “Edward Said”. Research and Teaching Assistant for the seminar. Researching tasks included participation in internal seminars as well as English to Spanish translations for academic texts.
Professional and Institutional Service
University of Michigan. RLL department
Co-organizer, 21st Charles F. Fraker Conference
Co-organizer, 21st Charles F. Fraker Conference “The Image Reframed:Visions of Instability”. University of Michigan.
Education
University of Michigan
University of Michigan
University of Michigan
Universidad de Buenos Aires
Escuela Normal Superior Antonio Mentruyt
Liceo Superior de Cultura Inglesa
Universidade Federal do Vale do Sao Francisco
Alliance Francaise Toulouse Midi-Pyrennes
University of Michigan
University of Victoria
Awards and Fellowships
Digital Humanities Summer Institute Tuition Scholarship
DHSI
Digital Humanities Summer Institute Tuition Scholarship. University of Victoria, Canada. June 2017.
Spring-Summer Research Grant
Rackham Graduate School, University of Michigan
Spring-Summer Research Grant for “Distant reading and “racial stories”. Using digital humanities tools to process narratives about Argentina’s “Negro Raul”” in partnership with Professor Paulina Alberto. Rackham Graduate School, University of Michigan. May-August 2016.
Student Engagement Program-Student Mini Grant
University of Michigan Library
Student Engagement Program-Student Mini Grant for “Transnational Solidarity for Peru: Quipu Project”. University of Michigan Library,University of Michigan, November 2015.
Conferences and Talks
"Moving across the Scale: A Reflection on the use of Digital Tools for Historical Analysis".
Moving across the Scale: A Reflection on the use of Digital Tools for Historical Analysis”. Global Digital Humanities Symposium. Michigan State University. March 2017.
“Je est un autre”: On Pedro Costa’s Collaborative Act at Filming”.
““Je est un autre”: On Pedro Costa’s Collaborative Act at Filming”. 21st Charles F. Fraker Conference “The Image Reframed: Visions of Instability”. University of Michigan. February 2017.
“Close versus Distant? A Reflection on the use of Distant Reading for Historical Analysis in the Classroom.”
“Close versus Distant? A Reflection on the use of Distant Reading for Historical Analysis in the Classroom.” Digital Pedagogies Lightning Talks and Workshop. Institute for the Humanities. University of Michigan. February 2017.
“Identidades neuróticas: os limites do lusotropicalismo no Portugal contemporâneo”
“Identidades neuróticas: os limites do lusotropicalismo no Portugal contemporâneo” – VI Encontro de Professores de Literaturas Africanas/ II AFROLIC “Dizer Africas: Vozes, Literatura, Mulher”. Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil. December 2017
2016 Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities & Computer Science
Participation in 2016 Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities & Computer Science “New Directions”. University of Illinois, Chicago.November 2016.
“Migraciones contemporáneas e identidad: Miradas sobre Palestina”
“Migraciones contemporáneas e identidad: Miradas sobre Palestina”.National Congress of ALADAA (Latin American association of Asian and African studies). Centro Cultural de la Cooperacion, Buenos Aires, Argentina. August 2014.
“Etíopes Judíos en Israel: entre el asentamiento y la discriminación.(1984-2012)”.
“Etíopes Judíos en Israel: entre el asentamiento y la discriminación.(1984-2012)”. XIV Internacional Congress of ALADAA (Latin American association of Asian and African studies). Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina.