Dr. Ann Cerminaro-Costanzi
Interim Vice President for Academic Affairs
acostanzi@marywood.edu
VP Academic Affairs
570-348-6211 x2316Liberal Arts Center 200
Courses taught:
Elementary Italian I ITAL-101Elementary Italian II ITAL-102
Contemporary Cultural Trends in Spanish-Speaking Films SPAN-280
Independent Study in Spanish SPAN-499
Independent Study in Spanish SPAN-499A
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 Marywood 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 Álvarez” in Latino Literature: An Encyclopedia for Students. ABC-CLIO and Greenwood Press. March 2023.
“Writing Spaces of Ritual, Resistance, and Renewal: Lorca’s Poeta en Nueva York and Cabrera’s Cuentos negros de Cuba Intersecting in the Space of Duende” in Voces del Caribe 13 (Spring 2022).
Review of "Aleixandre’s Shadow of Paradise, Water, and the Kiss: An Elemental Paradise" for ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, Summer 2021.
“Poesía en estado nasciente”: Bodies, Landscapes and the Creative Process in Vicente Aleixandre’s Espadas como labios and La destrucción 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 Aleixandre’s Espadas como labios and La destrucción o el amor” Hispania 90.4 (2007) 634-642.
Presentations and Publications
Selected Publications:
“Julia Álvarez” in Latino Literature: An Encyclopedia for Students. ABC-CLIO and Greenwood Press. March 2023.
“Writing Spaces of Ritual, Resistance, and Renewal: Lorca’s Poeta en Nueva York and Cabrera’s Cuentos negros de Cuba Intersecting in the Space of Duende” in Voces del Caribe 13 (Spring 2022).
Review of "Aleixandre’s Shadow of Paradise, Water, and the Kiss: An Elemental Paradise" for ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, Summer 2021.
“Poesía en estado nasciente”: Bodies, Landscapes and the Creative Process in Vicente Aleixandre’s Espadas como labios and La destrucción 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 Aleixandre’s Espadas como labios and La destrucción o el amor” Hispania 90.4 (2007) 634-642.