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
- Modern 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
- Parisi, Ariela. "Retroespeculación Ancestral: Futurismos Indígenas y Nuevas Cosmologías de lo Posible." LL Journal, vol. 20, no. 1, 2025.
- Parisi, Ariela.“Of Black Bodies and Celestial Bodies: Queer Afrofuturism and New Spatialities in Diego Paulino's Negrum3” Kamchatka Journal, N 22, 2023, pp. 360-378
- Parisi, Ariela. Review of Ginway, M. Elizabeth, “Cyborgs, Sexuality, and the Undead: The Body in Mexican and Brazilian Speculative Fiction” H-Sci-Med-Tech, H-Net Reviews, 2022.
- Parisi, Ariela. "La máquina está en movimiento. Reseña de Recalibrando los circuitos de la máquina: ciencia ficción e imaginarios tecnológicos en la narrativa en español del siglo XXI. Jonatán Martín Gómez, Patricio Sullivan (eds.). Albatros Ediciones, 2022. 404 págs.," Alambique. Revista académica de ciencia ficción y fantasía / Jornal acadêmico de ficção científica e fantasía: Vol. 9 : Iss. 1 , Article 2, 2022.
