Nelly A. Rosario

Visiting Artist in Residence in Latina and Latino Studies
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413-597-2611
Hollander Hall Rm 113
At Williams since 2017

Education

S.B. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Civil Engineering (1994)
M.F.A. Columbia University, Creative Writing (1998)

Areas of Expertise

 

Research Interests

  • Creative Writing: Fiction, Creative nonfiction
  • Experimental Writing/Literature
  • World Literature
  • Graphic Novels
  • History of Science and Medicine
  • World History
  • Archival Studies
  • Data Visualization

 

Courses

Note: courses in gray are not offered this academic year.

LATS 105(F)

Latina/o Identities: Constructions, Contestations, and Expressions

LATS 222 / ENGL 252(F, S)

Ficciones: A Writing Workshop

LATS 232 / ENGL 232 S

We the People in the Stacks: Democracy and Literatures of Archives

LATS 330(S)

DNA + Latinx: Decoding the "Cosmic Race"

LATS 348 / AMST 348 S / COMP 348 S

Graphic Narratives as Democratic Ideals

Scholarship/Creative Work

 

Recent Book Chapters

“Do Us Part.” Everyday People: The Color of Life, ed. Jennifer Baker. New York: Atria Books, 2018.

“El canto del agua.” La nación y su escritura: Colección de voces dominicanas (1965-2017) [The Nation and its Writing: Collection of Dominican Voices (1965-2017)], eds. Carmen Cañete Quesada and Franklin Gutiérrez. Santo Domingo: Editorial Santuario, 2018.

 

Book

Song of the Water Saints: A Novel.  New York: Pantheon, 2002 / New York: Vintage, 2003.

El canto del agua: Una novela, trans. Patricia Antón. Barcelona: Emecé Planeta, 2003 / New York: Vintage Español, 2003 / MD: Recorded Books Audiolibros, 2003.

 

 

Awards, Fellowships & Grants

 

Recent Fellowships

Reading Fellow, Under the Volcano, Tepoztlán, MEXICO, 2019

Archives & Library Research Award, Dominican Studies Institute, City College-CUNY, 2017

 

Course Websites

 

DNA+Latinx: Decoding the ‘Cosmic Race’ (LATS 330-01), Spring 2019

 

The Graphic Narrative: A ‘Global South’ Perspective (LATS 316-01), Fall 2018

 

We the People in the Stacks: Democracy and Literatures of Archives (LATS 232-01), Spring 2018

 

Drawing Democracy: Graphic Narratives as Democratic Ideals (LATS 348-01), Fall 2017

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