Biography

Marci L. Carrasquillo earned a B.A. from the University of Connecticut and an M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Oregon.  A National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Fellowship recipient, a two-time Ford Foundation Fellowship recipient, and a Rowan University “Teaching Wall of Fame for Teaching Excellence” inductee, she has published critical essays on Puerto Rican folklore, on the works of Oscar “Zeta” Acosta, Rudolfo Anaya, Sandra Cisneros, Erika Lopez, and Judith Ortiz Cofer, and pedagogical essays on teaching multiethnic literatures.  She teaches introductory courses, survey courses, and seminars in U.S. Latinx and Multiethnic Literatures of the United States, as well as both halves of the U.S. literature survey sequence.