Ph. D., Yale University
Professor of Spanish and Caribbean Literature
Areas of Expertise
Email: gosser@fau.edu
Office phone: 561-297-0612
Mary Ann Gosser Esquililn is a Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature. She completed her A.B. degree in French at Bryn Mawr College, PA; her license and maîtrise in Comparative Literature at the Université de Provence I, Aix-en-Provence; and her doctorate in Comparative Literature at Yale University. Her areas of interest encompass the literarure of the French- and Spanish-speaking Caribbean. She has taught at Rutgers University; at Denis Diderot, Université de Paris VII; and at the University of the West Indies, Mona Campus, Jamaica as a visiting Fulbright Scholar.
Her teaching awards at Florida Atlantic University include the Alumni Association Faculty Talon Award, the Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching (2001-02 and 1994-95), and Award for Excellence and Innovation in Undergraduate Advising, (2012).
She is President of Florida Atlantic University's Chapter 128, Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi.
She is also a member of the Editorial Board of Sargasso: A Journal of Caribbean Literature, Language and Culture and Chasqui .
Selected Publications
"Looking for Zombis in All the Wrong Places: Mayra Montero's La trenza de la Hermosa luna" Hispanet 5 (2012). http://www.hispanetjournal.com/Volume5.htm
“Del rojo de su sombra de Mayra Montero: cruzando fronteras.” Letras Hispanas: Revista de Literatura y Cultura 7 (2010): n.p. “El consumo del cuerpo travesti en Sirena Selena vestida de pena de Mayra Santos-Febres.” PALARA:Publication of the Afro-Latin / American Research Association14 (2010): 42-53.
“Recónditas raíces raciales y culturales en La casa de la laguna de Rosario Ferré.” Alba de América 27.51 and 52 (2008): 245-57.
“Caribbean Poetics of the Erotic in Mayra Montero’s In the Palm of Darkness.” NewMango Season 1.2 (2008): 149-58.
“Puerto Ricans Searching for Their Roots: Afro-Caribbean Routes in Olga Nolla.” CLA Journal 1.4 (2007): 418-35.
“La ménagerie caribeña: algunas bestias y varios animales.” Monographic Review / Revista Monográfica 20 (2005): 45-58.
“Rosario Ferré y Olga Nolla: ¿manuscritos reconceptualizando la nación?” Confluencia 19.2 (2004): 58-68.
“Marie (Vieux) Chauvet y Myriam Warner-Vieyra: diarios demenciales o escrituras esculcantes.” Género y cultura en América Latina: arte, historia y estudios de género. Comp. Luzelena Gutiérrez Velasco. México, D. F.: Colegio de México, 2003. 177-87.
“Nanas negras: The Silenced Women in Rosario Ferré and Olga Nolla.” Centro Journal of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies 14.2 (2002): 49-63.
“Ana Lydia Vega’s Falsas crónicas del Sur: Reconstruction and Revision of Puerto Rico’s Past.” A Twice-Told Tale: Reinventing the Encounter in Iberian/Iberian American Literature and Film. Ed. Santiago Juan-Navarro and Theodore Robert Young. Newark: U of Delaware P, 2001. 193-209.
“La transculturación social y racial: ¿treta posmoderna de Ana Lydia Vega?” Chasqui 29.2 (2000): 108-21.
“Marie Chauvet and Edwidge Danticat: Dramatic Narratives or Haitian Danses macabres.” Sargasso: Special Issue on Performance and Text in Caribbean Literature and Art (1999) (2000): 76-93.
“Rosario Ferré: Voice of the Writer, Voice of the Translator.” Journal of West Indian Literature 8.2 (1999): 91-99.
“A Puerto Rican Case of Desire and Despair: Rosario Ferré’s The House on the Lagoon.” JAISA 3.2 (1998): 23-33.
“Caribbean Identities Reconstructed and Redefined in Women’s Narrative Texts: Marie Chauvet, Myriam Warner-Vieyra, and Ana Lydia Vega.” Latin American Issues: The Caribbean(s) Redefined 13 (1997): 15-36.
“The Archeology of (Writing) the Body: Severo Sarduy’s El Cristo de la rue Jacob.” Hacia un nuevo canon literario. Ed. Jo-Anne Engelbert and Dianne Bono. Hanover, NH: Ediciones del Norte, 1995.121-31.
“Textualidad y sensualidad compartidas en ‘El regalo’ de Rosario Ferré.” Alba de América 11.20-21 (1993): 199-210 .
“Cobra: Writing is the Art of Ellipsis and Digression.” Critical Essays on the Literatures of Spain and Spanish America. Ed. Luis T. González-del-Valle and Julio Baena. Boulder: Publications of the Society of Spanish and Spanish-American Studies, 1991. 111-20.
