Marisol Fila

Marisol Fila
Mark Claster Mamolen Dissertation Workshop Alumnus 2023

Marisol Fila (she/her/Ella) is a PhD Candidate in Romance Languages and Literatures Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Michigan. Her research explores how Black female and male writers, artists, and intellectuals in the twenty-first century Black presses of Buenos Aires, Argentina, and São Paulo, Brazil use digital and print media to navigate distinct articulations between diasporic and national Black identities. In her dissertation, Marisol analyzes how contemporary Black thinkers and activists use both national and diasporic identifications to center issues of race, racism, and anti-racism in purportedly “raceless” nations. Grounding her teaching and scholarship on Anti-Racist Critical Pedagogy and Public Digital Humanities, Marisol additionally reflects on the ways in which technology and digital media can serve as a tool to share her research and work with a wider audience while developing digital public projects in partnership with Afro-Latin American activist groups. Marisol is the recipient of a University of Michigan 2022 Anti-Racism Research Grant and a current Imagining America PAGE Co-Director.