Degrees and Fellowships
Ph.D., Comparative Literature and Museum Studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, August 2022
Dissertation Title: Sovereign Noise in Times of Peace: An Abolitionist Transimperial Cultural History of Pacification in the U.S. and Latin America.
Dissertation Committee: Frieda Ekotto, Benedicte Boisseron, Tiffany Ng, Daniel Nemser
MA., English, Florida International University, Miami, Florida, May 2015
M.A. Thesis: On Record: Soundscapes as Metaphor and Physical Manifestation of Memory in Early Holocaust Novels and Contemporary Criticism.
B.A., English, Florida International University: December 2012
Certificate, Exile Studies, Florida International University: December 2012
- Awards and Fellowships
- Museum Studies Program Fellowship for Doctoral Research in Museums, University of Michigan, 2022
- Sweetland Dissertation Writing Institute Fellowship, Sweetland Writing Center, 2021
- Rackham Merit Fellowship, Rackham Graduate School, 2015-2020
- Detroit City Study Fellowship, LSA Institute for the Humanities, 2015
- Theory Labs
- “Capture” seminar. King’s College–University of Michigan. King’s College, London, June-July 2017
Publications
“‘715 Haven Street: Art Looks Back’: The Archival Question of Art Resistance for Abolitionist Futures in a Pacified Present” Journal for Cultural Research, Vol. 27, No. 4 2023. https://doi.org/10.1080/14797585.2023.2238142
The Albuquerque Papers in Motion: The Afterlives of Maroon Storytelling in Tereza de Benguela’s Archival Journey to the American Midwest. Forthcoming.
Public Scholarship
“Rendering 715 Haven Street: Thinking of Presence and Digital Tangibility in Black and Ally Spaces at the University of Michigan” Museum Matters. October 14, 2022
“Resource Panick and Alligator Alcatraz” The Latino Newsletter. July 19, 2025
- Digital Exhibits and Curatorial Experience
- “715 Haven Street: Art Looks Back ” an interactive public-facing digital gallery project supported by DAAS at the University of Michigan, 2022
- DAAS/MSP Curatorial and Archival Intern for DAAS50 Digital Art Gallery Project, June-September, 2021
- West African Art Collection/ Gallery Interpretation MSP Consultant, Toledo Museum of Art-Museum Studies Program (UMich), 2017
Academic Affiliations
Visiting Assistant Professor, English Department, Albion College, 2025-present
Adjunct Instructor, English Department, Albion College, 2024-2025
Lecturer (Intermittently), Comparative Literature, University of Michigan, 2022-2024
Part-Time English Instructor, Washtenaw Community College, 2023-2025
Conference Presentations
“Translating Spiral Time: Navigating Monolingualism and Archival Afterlives in Contemporary Brazilian Critical Fabulation.” American Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting, American Comparative Literature Association, May 29, 2025, Online.
“Multimodal Translation and the Archival Afterlives of Tereza de Benguela in the American Midwest.” The Southwest Council of Latin American Studies Conference, The Southwest Council of Latin American Studies, March 26, 2025, Albuquerque.
“Textual Taxonomies and Aesthetic Deconstruction: The Interplay of Art and Archival History in the Modern Recasting of 18th Century Western Brazilian Borderlands.” Rocky Mountain Council for Latin American Studies Annual Conference, Rocky Mountain Council for Latin American Studies, April 9, 2025, Ottawa.
“Translating Digital and Maroon Abolitionist Cartographies: Troubling the Monolingual Afterlives of Pacification in the Lusophone and Hispanophone Slavery Archives” The Afterlives of Slavery Across Seas and Oceans. Global Hispanophone Forum. Modern Languages Association, Philadelphia, 2024
“The Unfinished Work of Abolition:” Making Sense of Diasporic Geopolitical Race in Lusophone and Anglophone Comparative Abolitionisms,” Black Modernities in the Portuguese-speaking World: The Two Twenties. Modern Languages Association Conference, Philadelphia, 2024
““715 Haven Street: Art Looks Back” – Public Digital Curation of Art Resistance and the Archival Question of Abolitionist Public Disruption in the Context of Colonial Understandings of Pacification” Thirteenth International Conference on The Image, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, US, 2022
“Niara Sudarkasa and Student-Faculty Solidarity In the DAAS Art Archives” From Gloria Marshall to Yeye Olokun-Igbadero: Niara Sudarkasa–Activism, Anthropology, Africa and Its Diaspora, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, October 8, 2021.
“Storytelling, Sovereignty, and Settler History.” Discussant Address.“Challenging the Confines of Settler Colonialism” Global Theories of Critique Initiative, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 2019
“How to Read a Breitbart Article: A Reading Praxis from a Visually Queer, White, Latinx GSI,” Presented at “Undisciplined Readings: Rethinking Practices and Methods” CLIFF, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 2017
“Bells as Instruments of Sonic Ecstasy and as Materialization of Colonial Gender Discourse” poster presented at “Resonance and Remembrance: An Interdisciplinary Bell Studies Symposium,” University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 2017
“A Critical Eye for a Medieval Guy: A Comparative Reading of the Darkness of Contemporary,” presented at “Crystal Queer” Graduate Student Conference (Comparative Literature), Indiana University, Bloomington, 2016
“Journalist, Artist, and Witness: The Role of Character Representation in Remembering and Envisioning The Holocaust in the Literature of the 1940s,” presented at the SCLA 40/ “Nuance”-Eckerd College, St. Petersburg, October 2014
“Writing Toward a New Art: Exposing Language to the Matter of Flesh in Woolf’s Between the Acts”, presented at the “Rhetoric of War” Twelfth International Conference-Saint Louis University, Madrid Campus, Madrid, 2014
“Finding Jess: Liminality in Stone Butch Blues,” presented at the 11th Annual Women, Sexuality, and Gender Studies Student Conference-Florida International University, Miami, November 2011
- Creative Writing Presentations
- “Empty Handed Empty Search Box.” Poem. Read at Literati Bookstore, Ann Arbor, 2019 and “Migrant Stories II.” “Tricontinental Solidarity Network and Global Solidarity after Colonialism” 2019
Teaching
Instructor of record and syllabus designer for:
Divided Nations, English Department, Albion College, Fall 2025
Family Matters, English Department, Albion College, Fall 2025
Composition I, English Department, Albion College, Fall 2024, Spring 2025
Composition I and Composition II, English & College Readiness, Washtenaw Community College Winter 2024, Fall 2024, Winter 2025
Developmental Writing, English & College Readiness, Washtenaw Community College Fall 2023, Fall 2024
Transversal Asymmetries: Language and Translation, Comparative Literature, University of Michigan Spring 2023, Fall 2024
Writing, Identity, and the Colonial, Comparative Literature, University of Michigan, Summer 2021, Winter 2021
Gender in Pop Culture, Comparative Literature, Universityof Michigan, Winter 2018, Fall 2017
Writing Out Loud, English Department, University of Michigan, Winter 2017, Fall 2016
Discussion Leader and syllabus design collaborator for:
Great Performances, Comparative Literature, University of Michigan, Fall 2023 (3 sections) Fall 2022 (3 sections), Fall 2021, Fall 2020
Writing and Composition, Florida International University, Winter 2015, Fall 2015
University Service and Public-Facing Work
Introduction to College Writing Committee, English Department, Albion College, 2024-present
Anti-Racism Course Summer Working Group, Comparative Literature DEI Committee, University of Michigan, 2022
Science Pre-Exposure Academy program collaborator and mentor, University of Michigan, 2022
Graduate Student Teaching Mentor, Comparative Literature, University of Michigan, 2021
Graduate Student Representative (Elected), Comparative Literature, University of Michigan, 2018
President (Elected), Graduate English Association, Florida International University: Fall 2014–Spring 2015
Languages
Modern Languages
Native fluency in written and spoken Portuguese
Native fluency in written and spoken Spanish
Native fluency in written and spoken English.
Mariane (Mari) A. Stanev 