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Carolina Toscano, Ph.D.


Department of English

Education

Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, University of Washington
M.A. in English, SLU-Madrid/Autónoma de Madrid
B.A. in English and Spanish, George Washington University

Practice Areas

  • Professional writing
  • Composition and rhetoric
  • Contemporary literature from the U.S. and Spain
  • 19th-Century Spanish and English literature
  • Maternal feminist theory
  • Migration studies

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).

"Mothering, Masking Up, and Sarah Blake's Clean Air: A Maternal Ecocritical Reading": Pandemic, Mothers, and Family for the Journal of Motherhood Initiative. (Spring/Summer 2023).

Conferences and Presentations

IAMAS Writing Retreat, Jan. 2025, Part 1 of International Association of Maternal Action and Scholarship (IAMAS) Conference: (Re-)Producing Mothering, Motherwork, and Motherhood. 

PopMeC Frontiers Conference, Nov. 2024, Alcalá de Henares: Presented the second part of a forthcoming book chapter "Rhetorics at the Intersection of Mothering and Migration" (Part 2)

SLU-Madrid English Department Conference June 2024: Presented a paper entitled "Rhetorics at the Intersection of Mothering and Migration" (Part 1)

"Two Souls Converge: Maternal Anxiety and Environmental Angst in Samanta Schweblin's Fever Dream." IAMAS Conference, Boston University, June 2024 (Virtual)

Participated in a roundtable session to present my chapter in The Mother Wave: Theorizing, Enacting, and Representing Matricentric Feminism. IAMAS Conference, Boston University, June 2024 (Virtual)

"'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, Jan. 2024.

"The Parental Brain in Diane Cook's A New Wilderness": Adaptation Conference, Saint Louis University — 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’s class at SLU-Madrid, Nov. 2022.

"Transgressive Mothering in Workin' Moms": Presented at II International Conference on Discourses of Fictional (Digital) TV Series, University of Valencia, Oct. 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. Sept. 2022.

"Haunted Soundscapes and Landscapes in Luiselli's Lost Children Archive: A Maternal Ecocritical Reading": Presented at Landscape, Narrative, and Deep Time Conference, Saint Louis University — 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.