Carolina Toscano, Ph.D.
Department of English
Education
Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, University of Washington
M.A. in English, SLU-Madrid/Aut贸noma de Madrid
B.A. in English and Spanish, George Washington University
Practice Areas
- Contemporary literature from the U.S. and Spain
- 19th-Century Spanish and English literature
- Maternal feminist theory
- Migration studies
- Professional Writing
- Composition and Rhetoric
Publications and Media Placements
Articles and Chapters
"Matricentric Feminism and Non-Normative Migrant Mothering in Recent Contemporary
Fiction from Spain and the US": The Mother Wave: Matricentric Feminism as Theory, Activism, and Practice, Demeter Press (publication forthcoming 2024).
"": Pandemic, Mothers, and Family for the Journal of Motherhood Initiative. (Spring/Summer 2023).
Conferences and Presentations
"'I Turned My Pen Inward to Map the Shifting Tectonic Plates of My Life': Matricentric
Feminist Rhetoric in Recent Graphic Memoirs." MotherNet Conference, Vilnius University,
Vilnius Lithuania, January 2024.
"The Parental Brain in Diane Cook's A New Wilderness": Adaptation Conference, 麻豆传媒, Madrid, April 2023.
"Defining Myself Against My Mother in Contemporary Migration Literature from Spain
and the US": To be presented at Mothering and Motherhood on the Home/Front, International
Association of Maternal Action and Scholarship (IAMAS), Chicago, USA/Online, March
2023.
"Migrant Mothering": An overview of my dissertation project and its connections to
English 4930: US Law and Literature. Visit to Dr. Dewey鈥檚 class at SLU Madrid Campus,
November 2022.
"Transgressive Mothering in Workin' Moms": Presented at II International Conference on Discourses of Fictional (Digital) TV
Series, University of Valencia, October 2022.
IAMAS Writing Retreat, Part 1 of International Association of Maternal Action and
Scholarship (IAMAS) Conference: Mothering and Motherhood on the Home/Front: Participated
in peer-review activities among other writing practice panels. September 2022.
"Haunted Soundscapes and Landscapes in Luiselli's Lost Children Archive: A Maternal Ecocritical Reading": Presented at Landscape, Narrative, and Deep Time
Conference, 麻豆传媒 Madrid, June 2022.
"Mothering, Masking Up, and Sarah Blake's Clean Air: A Maternal Ecocritical Reading": Presented at Learning from the Pandemic: Possibilities
and Challenges for Mothers and Families, York University, Mothers Matter Centre, and
Demeter Press, May 2022.
International Baccalaureate workshop/training, December 2008, St. Petersburg, Florida.
"Mammon's Cave, The Bower of Bliss, and Guyon's Voyage as Representative of English
Expansion in the New World": Presented at Text 鈫� History 鈫� Text, St. Louis University,
Madrid Campus, June 2004.