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Carolina Toscano, Ph.D.


Department of English

Education

Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, University of Washington
M.A. in English, SLU-Madrid/Autónoma de Madrid
B.A. in English and Spanish, George Washington University

Practice Areas

  • Professional writing
  • Composition and rhetoric
  • Contemporary literature from the U.S. and Spain
  • 19th-Century Spanish and English literature
  • Maternal feminist theory
  • Migration studies

Publications and Media Placements

Articles and Chapters

Forthcoming chapter in The Mexico-US Border in Contemporary Narratives of the Pan-American Imaginary, entitled "Rhetorics at the Intersection of Mothering and Migration," Peter Lang.
 
Forthcoming chapter in Telling Lives: Mothers and Life Writing, entitled "I Turned My Pen Inward to Map the Shifting Tectonic Plates of My Life": Matricentric Feminist Rhetoric in Recent Graphic Memoirs" for Demeter Press, 2025/2026.

"Matricentric Feminism and Non-Normative Migrant Mothering in Recent Contemporary Fiction from Spain and the US": The Mother Wave: Matricentric Feminism as Theory, Activism, and Practice, Demeter Press, 2024.

"Mothering, Masking Up, and Sarah Blake's Clean Air: A Maternal Ecocritical Reading": Pandemic, Mothers, and Family for the Journal of Motherhood Initiative. (Spring/Summer 2023).

Conferences and Presentations

Mothers, Mothering, and Climate Change, "Introduction," International Association of Maternal Action and Scholarship (IAMAS) Conference: (Re)Producing Motherhood, Motherwork, and Mothering, Boston University, June 2025 (Virtual).

"Migrant Motherhood in Contemporary Spanish Literature: From Our Lady of Fatima to Quan Zhou Wu's Gazpacho Agridulce," The Multiple Representations of the Spanish and Irish Mother in Contemporary Literature International Conference, University of Almeria, May 2025.

Communities of Practice (COP): Northeastern University Global First Year Programs and CIEE Virtual Event, April 2025.

IAMAS Writing Retreat, Jan. 2025, Part 1 of International Association of Maternal Action and Scholarship (IAMAS) Conference: (Re-)Producing Mothering, Motherwork, and Motherhood. 

PopMeC Frontiers Conference, Nov. 2024, Alcalá de Henares: Presented the second part of a forthcoming book chapter "Rhetorics at the Intersection of Mothering and Migration" (Part 2).

SLU-Madrid English Department Conference June 2024: Presented a paper entitled "Rhetorics at the Intersection of Mothering and Migration" (Part 1).

"Two Souls Converge: Maternal Anxiety and Environmental Angst in Samanta Schweblin's Fever Dream." IAMAS Conference, Boston University, June 2024 (Virtual).

Participated in a roundtable session to present my chapter in The Mother Wave: Theorizing, Enacting, and Representing Matricentric Feminism. IAMAS Conference, Boston University, June 2024 (Virtual).

"'I Turned My Pen Inward to Map the Shifting Tectonic Plates of My Life': Matricentric Feminist Rhetoric in Recent Graphic Memoirs." MotherNet Conference, Vilnius University, Vilnius Lithuania, Jan. 2024.

"The Parental Brain in Diane Cook's A New Wilderness": Adaptation Conference, Saint Louis University-Madrid, April 2023.

"Defining Myself Against My Mother in Contemporary Migration Literature from Spain and the US": To be presented at Mothering and Motherhood on the Home/Front, International Association of Maternal Action and Scholarship (IAMAS), Chicago, USA/Online, March 2023.

"Migrant Mothering": An overview of my dissertation project and its connections to English 4930: US Law and Literature. Visit to Dr. Dewey's class at Saint Louis University-Madrid, Nov. 2022.

"Transgressive Mothering in Workin' Moms": Presented at II International Conference on Discourses of Fictional (Digital) TV Series, University of Valencia, Oct. 2022.

IAMAS Writing Retreat, Part 1 of International Association of Maternal Action and Scholarship (IAMAS) Conference: Mothering and Motherhood on the Home/Front: Participated in peer-review activities among other writing practice panels. Sept. 2022.

"Haunted Soundscapes and Landscapes in Luiselli's Lost Children Archive: A Maternal Ecocritical Reading": Presented at Landscape, Narrative, and Deep Time Conference, Saint Louis University-Madrid, June 2022.

"Mothering, Masking Up, and Sarah Blake's Clean Air: A Maternal Ecocritical Reading": Presented at Learning from the Pandemic: Possibilities and Challenges for Mothers and Families, York University, Mothers Matter Centre, and Demeter Press, May 2022.

Editorial Work

Currently co-editing a book entitled Mothers, Mothering, and Climate Change for Demeter Press in the upcoming year.
 
Participated on the editorial board of the Journal of the Motherhood Initiative for Research and Community Involvement, 2023