Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)
Folklore
The University of Texas at Austin
2011
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Faculty
Faculty
Marina del Sol, Ph.D. ( She/Her)
Inaugural Honors Faculty Fellow
Department/Office
- COAS Honors Program
School/College
- College of Arts & Sciences
Additional Positions
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Director, Writing Across the Curriculum ProgramCertified WAC Instructor
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Master InstructorDepartment of English, Writing Instructors and Lecturers
Biography
Marina del Sol, Ph.D. received her Ph.D. from the Américo Paredes Center for Cultural Studies at The University of Texas at Austin and her B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley. As a Master Instructor in the English Department at Howard University, she teaches critical writing courses that focus on language, identity, and the public sphere. She also serves as the Director of the Writing Across the Curriculum Program for the College of Arts and Sciences.
Del Sol’s research centers around citizenship, bias, and cultural representation, and she has a strong commitment to projects that examine the theoretical implications and power dynamics of digital humanities work, including issues related to bias in archives. She is particularly interested in how language, identity and power operate within techno-social systems.
Education & Expertise
Education
Master of Arts (M.A.)
Folklore
The University of Texas at Austin
1999
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.)
Interdisciplinary Field Studies
University of California, Berkeley
1996
Expertise
Digital Humanities
Writing Studies
Cultural Studies
Ethnography & Representation
Academics
Academics
Writing, Literacy, and Discourse
Persuasive Writing and Research
Digital Storytelling and Data Visualization
Honors Writing Intensive
Research
Research
Specialty
Digital Humanities, Otherness, Trauma & Narrative, Ethnographic Writing, and Writing Studies.Funding
2024 Grantee, Grants-in-Aid Program, US Latino Digital Humanities Center (USLDH), The University of Houston. Total funding: $7,500
2024 Digital Humanities Mentor, Digital Ethnic Futures Consortium. Total funding: $2,500
2023 Digital Humanities Mentor, Digital Ethnic Futures Consortium. Total funding: $2,500
2022 Digital Humanities Scholar, Digital Publishing Program, Black Book Interactive Project, Project on the History of Black Writing, The University of Kansas. Total funding: $2,275
2022 OER Course Developer, BisonOpen Summer Academy, Center for Excellence in Teaching, Learning, and Assessment, Howard University. Total funding: $2,000
2022 Digital Humanities Mentor, Digital Ethnic Futures Consortium. Total funding: $2,500
2021 Digital Scholarship Fellow, LLILAS Benson Latin American Studies and Collections, University of Texas Libraries, The University of Texas at Austin. Total funding: $3,000
2021 Expert Specialist, “Ensuring Scholarly Access to Digital Records,” funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and hosted by Virginia Tech and the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA). Online. April 9 - May 7, 2021. Total funding: $1,000
2021 Scholar, NEH Summer Institute Hurston on the Horizon: Past, Present, and Future, Project on the History of Black Writing, The University of Kansas. Online. July 11-30, 2021. Total funding: $2,850
2021 Advanced Online Student Engagement, UNCF. Total funding: $200
2020 Online Course Developer, HU-Teach, Office of Faculty Development, Howard University. Total funding: $3,000
2019 Digital Humanities Scholar, Black Book Interactive Project – Extending the Reach (BBIP-ER) Scholar Program, The University of Kansas. Total funding: $2,275
2019 Assessment Research Fellow, Office of Institutional Research and Assessment, Howard University. Total funding: $1,500
Publications and Presentations
Publications and Presentations
The History of Black Writing Novel Corpus
This article considers how using a full-text search and retrieval tool, PhiloLogic, to navigate the space of a Black digital archive can effectively locate trends and draw attention to African American writers who have collectively and individually impacted literary studies.
Book Review: Citizens But Not Americans
Citizens but Not Americans: Race and Belonging among Latino Millennials investigates the ways in which Latino millennials make meaning of racialized experiences. In her work with Latino youth, Nilda Flores-Gonzalez uses an intersectional lens to explore her work with Latino youth, Nilda Flores-Gonzalez uses an intersectional lens to explore how self-understandings of race are shaped by aspects of identity, including national origin, generation, sex, educational level, color, and age.