Biography:
Maria C. Zamora,
Ph.D. is Assistant Professor of English and Coordinator of the World
Literature Program at Kean University in Union, NJ. Her book entitled
Nation, Race, History in Asian American Literature: Re-membering
the Body will be published in 2008 with Peter Lang Publishing.
She is also currently working on another book project entitled
“Metaphors of Illness: Critical
Essays on Ethnic American Literature”.
She is President of the New Jersey
College English Association.
Credentials:
Dr.
Zamora completed her M.A. and Ph.D. in Comparative Literature at the
University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she was a fellow of the Center
for Southeast Asian Studies. She is a Fulbright scholar who has
traveled and researched extensively in Asia. She was a
Postdoctoral Teaching and Research Fellow at Fordham University in
2003-2005.
Areas of Study:
Dr. Zamora’s research interests include
comparative literature, U.S.
Postcolonial Literatures (e.g. Philippines, Cuba, Puerto Rico,
Hawaii), nationalism, cultural studies, postcolonial theory,
narrative, and literary theory.
Academic Honors:
Untenured Faculty Research
Initiative, Kean University 2008-2009, 2005-2006
Postdoctoral Fellowship,
Fordham University, Fall
2003-Spring 2005
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Dissertation Fellowship, The Graduate School, Fall 2000
FLAS Title IV Dissertation Fellowship, U.S. Dept. of Education,
Academic Year 1999-2000
Fulbright IIE Dissertation Fellowship,
April 1998-January 1999
FLAS Title IV Fellowship, U.S. Dept. of Education, Academic Year
1997-1998
FLAS Title IV Fellowship, U.S. Dept.
of Education, Academic Year 1996-1997
Advanced Filipino Abroad (Fulbright-Hayes
Language Program) for the study of Tagalog at the University of the
Philippines-Los Banos, Summer 1995
Advanced Opportunity Fellowship,
University of Wisconsin-Madison Graduate School, Academic Year
1995-1996
FLAS Title IV Fellowship, U.S. Dept.
of Education, Spring 1995
Southeast Asian Studies Summer
Institute FLAS Award for the study of Tagalog, Summer 1994
Center for Southeast Asian Studies
Fellowship, Fall 1994
Advanced Opportunity Fellowship, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Graduate School, Academic Year 1993-1994
Editorship:
Founding
Series Editor: Postcolonial Studies (Peter Lang Publishing,
2008- ).
Former Teaching Appointments:
Postdoctoral Teaching and Research Fellow,
Fordham University
Adjunct Professor of the Humanities, Cooper
Union
Adjunct Professor, English Department,
Fairfield University
Fulbright Foundation Scholar and Lecturer,
Manila, Philippines
Languages:
Native: English
Conversational: Tagalog, French, Spanish
Travel: Hong Kong, Korea, Japan, Pakistan, India, Nepal,
Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia, Philippines, Indonesia, Papua New
Guinea, Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, Guatemala, Egypt, Europe, Puerto
Rico, Mexico
