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About Marika

Marika Preziuso is a Professor of World Literature at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design. She teaches literature from the Caribbean and its diasporas, postcolonial literature and gender studies. She also has experience training faculty and students on issues of intercultural understanding. Topics of interest are geographical and emotional displacement, moments of intercultural tension and connection, personal narratives of embodied pain and growth, and the alchemy of the creative process itself. In her non-academic life, Marika writes poetry and hybrid pieces. She has had a few poems published, in Italian and recently in English, in the Journal of Critical Thought and Praxis.