Ariela Parisi

Education

• Ph.D Rutgers University
• M.A Ohio University

Biography

Ariela Parisi is an Assistant Professor of Spanish at Alfred University. Her research focuses on the intersection of memory studies and speculative fiction in Latin America, with her current project, Paths of Memory in Latin American Speculative Fiction, examining how narratives of memory are reimagined through speculative frameworks.

She holds a Ph.D. in Spanish from Rutgers University and an M.A. in Spanish from Ohio University. Additionally, she has earned postgraduate certificates in Cinema Studies, World Languages Teaching, and Afro-Latin American Studies from Rutgers University and Harvard University's Hutchins Center.

Her academic interests include human rights, cinema studies, and Latin American speculative fiction. She teaches a range of courses, from Spanish language instruction to content-based seminars such as Gender in Latin American Film and Futures in Peril: Latin American Speculative Fiction.

Grants

Digital Humanities Seed Grant – Rutgers University
University and Louis Bevier Fellowship – Rutgers University 
University Merit Grad. Scholars – Rutgers University
Tara Kousha Douglass Program Fund – Rutgers University
IDEA Innovation Grant Program - Rutgers University, DEI office
Conference Travel Award - Rutgers University
Portuguese Teachers Fellowship - Middlebury College
Très Marias Fellowship - Rutgers University, Spanish and Portuguese Department Research Grant - Rutgers University, Center for Latino and Caribbean Studies

Awards/Honors

• Award for Distinguished Contributions to Undergraduate Education Rutgers University 2022

Affiliations & Memberships

• Latin American Studies Association , United States
• Mondern Languages Association, United States
• American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages , United States
• International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts, United states

Activities

Selected Publications: