Diane Marting, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Modern Languages
Diane E. Marting is Professor of Spanish at The University of Mississippi where she has been teaching since 2002, after holding positions at UCLA, Columbia University, and other research institutions. She is the Graduate Program Coordinator for French, German, and Spanish. Prof. Marting earned her degrees in Comparative Studies from Ohio State (B.A. with Honors) and in Comparative Literature from Rutgers University (M.A., Ph. D.). She primarily teaches courses in literature, film, and culture from Spanish America, but also enjoys teaching Spanish language, literature in English, and gender studies. In 2022 she is working on minority recruitment for the M. A. degree in Modern Languages and Latin American literature about prostitution.
Gender Studies -Related Research Interests:Her research interests include Spanish American and Brazilian literature, film, and culture by women writers and directors or about women’s lives, feminist literary criticism, and European-Latin American feminist philosophies.
Fellowship-Related Published Research:
“The Politics of Memory in Luisa Valenzuela’s “La llave”, Latin American Studies Association 2024 Hybrid Congress: Reacción y resistencia: Imaginar futuros posibles en las Américas, June 12–15, 2024, virtually and on-site in Bogota, Colombia, my paper was on a virtual panel, June 12th, 2024.
“The Human Comedy with a touch of Horror: Short Stories by Argentine writer Samanta
Schweblin,” MFLA Conference, November 7, 2025, Clinton, Ms.
Moderator: Two successful proposals for Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) for 2026 as president of AEGS. Moderation turned over to AEGS members, 2025.
Moderator: Two successful proposals for Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) for 2025 as president of AEGS. I moderated: “Sex and Gender in Short Stories in Latin America,” March 8, 2025; I passed the other panel on to the ex-president of AEGS.
Moderator: “Transgressive Territories: Bodies, Spaces, and Alternative Identities in Latin American Literature.” Mississippi Philological Association (MPA), Feb. 28, 2025, Oxford, MS. By invitation. (Thanks, Kevin!)
Review of Anderson, Mark. The Rights of Nature and the Testimony of Things: Literature and Environmental Ethics from Latin America. Vanderbilt University Press, 2024. 388 pp. Submitted October 2025.
Review of Poets, Philosophers, Lovers, On the Writings of Giannina Braschi. Edited by Frederick Luis Aldama & Tess O’Dwyer. Foreword by Ilan Stavans. Latina and Latin American Profiles. University of Pittsburgh Press, 2020. 196 pp. Revista de Estudios de Género y Sexualidades, 50, no. 1-2 (2024), pp. 256-258. ISSN: 2637-9961. DOI: 10.14321/jgendsexustud.50.1-2.0256. (Appeared in December 2025).
