Dr. Marion Rohrleitner received her Ph.D. from the Department of English at the University of Notre Dame in 2007, and holds a Mag. phil. in American Studies and Romance Languages and Literatures from the Leopold-Franzens-Universität Innsbruck, Austria. Her primary research interests concern the intersections of history, gender, and transnationalism in contemporary Latina/o American and Caribbean literatures and in literatures of the African diaspora after 1965. Her interdisciplinary collection Dialogues Across Diasporas: Conversations Between Women Writers, Scholars, and Activists of Africana and Latina Descent, co-edited with Sarah Ryan, was published by Lexington Books in 2012 under the aegis of their Critical Africana Series.
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