Dr. Ann Cerminaro-Costanzi
Academic Vice President for Faculty & Administration
acostanzi@marywood.edu
Academic Affairs
570-348-6211 x2316Liberal Arts Center 200
Courses taught:
Contemporary Cultural Trends in Spanish-Speaking Films SPAN-280Grammar Review SPAN-300
ST: Spanish Culture SPAN-399F
Independent Study in Spanish SPAN-499
Ann Cerminaro-Costanzi is the Interim Vice President for Academic Affairs. A Full Professor of Spanish and Italian, Dr. Cerminaro-Costanzi is an accomplished teacher and scholar in the field of Spanish language and Hispanic literature. She has been selected as a 做厙TV Case Professor of the Year and also earned an award for Excellence in Writing Pedagogy. Her various presentations and publications center on the poetry of the famed Spanish Generation of 1927, in particular the intersection between poetry, eroticism and the creative process in works by the poets Federico Garcia Lorca and Vicente Aleixandre and the surrealist painting of Joan Miro. She earned a PhD in Romance Languages and a Master of Spanish from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Dr. Cerminaro-Costanzi has taught elementary through advanced level courses in Spanish language, literature and culture as well as courses on Latino culture and literature in the U.S. and elementary Italian.
Selected Publications:
Julia lvarez in Latino Literature: An Encyclopedia for Students. ABC-CLIO and Greenwood Press. March 2023.
Writing Spaces of Ritual, Resistance, and Renewal: Lorcas Poeta en Nueva York and Cabreras Cuentos negros de Cuba Intersecting in the Space of Duende in Voces del Caribe 13 (Spring 2022).
Review of "Aleixandres Shadow of Paradise, Water, and the Kiss: An Elemental Paradise" for ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, Summer 2021.
Poes穩a en estado nasciente: Bodies, Landscapes and the Creative Process in Vicente Aleixandres Espadas como labios and La destrucci籀n o el amor in Art and the Artist in Society. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013.
The Text as Body, The Body as Text: An Approach to Reading the Early Poetry of Vicente Aleixandre. MIFLC Review 13 (Fall 2006-2007).
Merging the Erotic and the Poetic in Vicente Aleixandres Espadas como labios and La destrucci籀n o el amor Hispania 90.4 (2007) 634-642.
Presentations and Publications
Selected Publications:
Julia lvarez in Latino Literature: An Encyclopedia for Students. ABC-CLIO and Greenwood Press. March 2023.
Writing Spaces of Ritual, Resistance, and Renewal: Lorcas Poeta en Nueva York and Cabreras Cuentos negros de Cuba Intersecting in the Space of Duende in Voces del Caribe 13 (Spring 2022).
Review of "Aleixandres Shadow of Paradise, Water, and the Kiss: An Elemental Paradise" for ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, Summer 2021.
Poes穩a en estado nasciente: Bodies, Landscapes and the Creative Process in Vicente Aleixandres Espadas como labios and La destrucci籀n o el amor in Art and the Artist in Society. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013.
The Text as Body, The Body as Text: An Approach to Reading the Early Poetry of Vicente Aleixandre. MIFLC Review 13 (Fall 2006-2007).
Merging the Erotic and the Poetic in Vicente Aleixandres Espadas como labios and La destrucci籀n o el amor Hispania 90.4 (2007) 634-642.