{"id":5,"date":"2012-10-25T22:04:15","date_gmt":"2012-10-25T22:04:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/template-faculty01\/?page_id=5"},"modified":"2026-03-06T13:23:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T13:23:09","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/maya-socolovsky\/","title":{"rendered":"Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"tm-content-container\">\n<div id=\"node-114\">\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/maya-socolovsky\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/319\/2024\/08\/IMG_5763-scaled.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-50 size-medium alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/maya-socolovsky\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/319\/2024\/08\/IMG_5763-225x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/maya-socolovsky\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/319\/2024\/08\/IMG_5763-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/maya-socolovsky\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/319\/2024\/08\/IMG_5763-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/maya-socolovsky\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/319\/2024\/08\/IMG_5763-1152x1536.jpeg 1152w, https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/maya-socolovsky\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/319\/2024\/08\/IMG_5763-1536x2048.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/maya-socolovsky\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/319\/2024\/08\/IMG_5763-scaled.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a>Education <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>D.Phil. English, Oxford University<\/li>\n<li>M.Phil. English, Oxford University<\/li>\n<li>M.A. Vanderbilt University<\/li>\n<li>B.A. University of Leeds ( U.K. )<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Areas of Interest<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>U.S. Latino\/a literature<\/li>\n<li>Multicultural American literature<\/li>\n<li>Jewish American literature<\/li>\n<li>Literary Theory<\/li>\n<li>Latin American studies<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Book: <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><i>The Documented Child: Migration, Personhood, and Citizenship in Twenty-First-Century U.S. Latinx Children&#8217;s Literature<\/i> (University of Arizona Press, 2025)<\/p>\n<p><em>Troubling Nationhood in U.S. Latina Literature: Explorations of Place and Belonging<\/em>. Rutgers University Press, 2013.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Articles and Book Chapters:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cBorderland Ethics, Migrant Personhood and the Critique of State Sovereignty in Jairo Buitrago\u2019s <em>Two White Rabbits<\/em> and Jos\u00e9 Manuel Mat\u00e9o\u2019s <em>Migrant: The Journey of a Mexican Worker<\/em>.\u201d <em>The Lion and the Unicorn<\/em> 46.2 (2022), 175-200.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Material Literacies: Migration and Border Crossings in Chicano\/a Children&#8217;s Picture Books,&#8221; <em>MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the U.S.<\/em> 43.4 (2018), 148-174.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMaterial Commodities and Judaism in a Wireless World: Exploring Allegra Goodman\u2019s <em>The Cookbook Collector<\/em>.\u201d <em>Studies in American Jewish Literature<\/em>. 36.2 (2017), 177-204.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCultural (Il)literacy: Narratives of Epistolary Resistance and Transnational Citizenship in Julia Alvarez\u2019s <em>Return to Sender<\/em>,\u201d <em>Children\u2019s Literature Association Quarterly<\/em> 40.4 (2015), 386-404.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Southern Discomfort: Revisiting the Jewish Question in <em>Tova Mirvis&#8217;s The Ladies&#8217;s Auxiliary<\/em>.&#8221; \u00a0In\u00a0<em>Unfinalized Moments: Essays in the Development of Contemporary Jewish American Narrative<\/em>, ed. Derek Parker Royal (West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press, 2011), 33-54.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Telling Stories of Transgression in Judith Ortiz Cofer&#8217;s The Line of the Sun.&#8221; <em>MELUS<\/em> 34.1 (2009), 95-116.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPatriotism, Nationalism, and the Fiction of History in Julia \u00c1lvarez&#8217;s <em>In the Time of the Butterflies and In the Name of Salom\u00e9<\/em>.\u201d <em>Latin American Literary Review<\/em>\u00a034.68 (2006): 5-24.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrom Rumba to Funeral March: The Impossibility of Cuba in Oscar Hijuelos&#8217;s <em>A Simple Habana Melody (from when the world was good).<\/em>\u201d <em>South Atlantic Review<\/em>\u00a070.1 (2005): 117-147.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c Cuba Interrupted: The Loss of Center and Story in Ana Men\u00e9ndez&#8217;s<em> In Cuba I Was a German Shepherd <\/em>.\u201d <em>Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction<\/em>\u00a046.3 (2005): 235-251.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCyber-Spaces of Grief: Online Memorials and the Columbine High School Shootings.\u201d <em>JAC<\/em> 24.2 (2004): 467-489.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLand, Legacy and Return: Negotiating a Post-Assimilationist Stance in Allegra Goodman&#8217;s <em>Kaaterskill Falls.<\/em>\u201d <em>Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies<\/em> 22.3 (2003): 26-42.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNarrative and Traumatic Memory in Denise Ch\u00e1vez&#8217;s <em>Face of an Angel.<\/em>\u201d <em>MELUS<\/em> 28.4 (2003): 187-205.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDeconstructing a Secret History: Trace, Translation, and Crypto-Judaism in Achy Obejas&#8217; <em>Days of Awe.<\/em>\u201d <em>Contemporary Literature<\/em> 44.2 (2003): 225-249.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Homelessness of Immigrant-American Ghosts: Hauntings and Photographic Narrative in Oscar Hijuelos&#8217; <em>The Fourteen Sisters of Emilio Montez O&#8217;Brien.<\/em>\u201d <em>PMLA<\/em> 117.2 (2002): 252-264.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnnatural Violences: Counter-Memory and Preservations in Cristina Garc\u00eda&#8217;s <em>Dreaming in Cuban and The Ag\u00fcero Sisters.&#8221;<\/em>\u00a0<em>Lit: Literature Interpretation Theory<\/em> 11.2 (2000): 143-167.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBorrowed Homes: Homesickness and Memory in Ana Castillo&#8217;s <em>Sapogonia.<\/em>\u201d <em>Aztl\u00e1n<\/em> 24.2 (1999), 73-94.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMoving Beyond the Mint Green Walls: An Examination of (Auto)Biography and Border in Ruth Behar&#8217;s <em>Translated Woman: Crossing the Border with Esperanza&#8217;s Story.<\/em>\u201d <em>Frontiers: A Women&#8217;s Studies Journal<\/em> 19.3 (1998), 72-97.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Presentations:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Orphanhood, Storytelling, and Kinship in Matt de la Pe\u00f1a&#8217;s <em>We Were Here<\/em>.&#8221; MELUS, April 2024.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Dreamer Brand: Immigration, Storytelling and Commodification in Maria Andreu\u2019s <em>The Secret Side of Empty<\/em>.&#8221; 5th Latinx Literary Conference, April 2023.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRe-Branding the Dreamer: Commodification, Storytelling and Art in Alberto Ledesma\u2019s <em>Diary of a Reluctant Dreamer: Undocumented Vignettes from a Pre-American Life<\/em>.\u201d Children\u2019s Literature Association, June 2022.<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cNarratives of Shame and Healing: Tourism, Consumption, and Solidarity in Mal\u00edn Alegr\u00eda\u2019s Young Adult novel <em>Sofi Mendoza\u2019s Guide to Getting Lost in Mexico<\/em>,\u201d SECOLAS, March 2022.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDisappearance and Documentation in Latinx Children\u2019s Literature,\u201d MELUS, March 2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSurveillance and Perspective: Depictions of Nations and Border in Jos\u00e9 Manuel Mateo&#8217;s <em>Migrant<\/em>,\u201d Latina\/o Studies Association, July 2018.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDear Mrs. Trump, Please Read <em>This<\/em> Picture Book\u201d: The Ethics of Counting and Border Crossings in Jairo Buitrago\u2019s <em>Two White Rabbits<\/em>,\u201d MELUS, May 2018.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Resisting the Call to Hate (Again): Borderland Ethics and the Polity of Belonging in 21<sup>st<\/sup> Century Mexican-American Picture Books,&#8221; MELUS, April 2017.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRunning and Reading: Border Crossings and Migrant Workers in U.S. Latino\/a Children\u2019s Picture Books,\u201d MELUS, March 2016.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGlobal Diasporas and Multiethnic Studies,\u201d Roundtable Discussion (invited), MELUS, March 2016.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDocumenting the Undocumented: The Drama of Epistolary Writing in Julia Alvarez\u2019s <em>Return to Sender<\/em>,\u201d Biennial U.S. Latina\/o Literary Theory Conference, March 2015.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWriting \u201cA Planet with lots of farms and no borders:\u201d Mexican Immigration, Property Ownership, and Epistolary Narratives in Julia \u00c1lvarez\u2019s <em>Return to Sender<\/em>,\u201d Imagining Latina\/o Studies: Past, Present, and Future: An International Latina\/o Studies Conference, July 2014.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMaterial Commodities and Judaism in a Wireless World: Exploring Allegra Goodman\u2019s <em>The Cookbook Collector<\/em>.\u201d MELUS, March 2014.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTransnational Narratives: Orality and Literacy in Junot D\u00edaz\u2019s <em>The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao<\/em>,\u201d Biennial U.S. Latina\/o Literary Theory Conference, March 2013.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDIY Ethnicity: The Practice of Recipes and Memoir in Diana Abu-Jaber\u2019s <em>The Language of Baklava<\/em>,\u201d MELUS, April 2011.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOrality, Literacy, and the Narrating of Nations: Junot D\u00edaz\u2019s <em>The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao<\/em>,\u201d SECOLAS, March 2011.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Here and Beyond: How Transnationalism and Ethnic Studies Can Ungovern Corporate America,\u201d Invited Speaker, Roundtable Discussion, MELUS, March 2010.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Tales of the Unexpected: Cyberspace, California , and Cuban-American Identity in Himilce Novas&#8217; Princess Papaya,&#8221; MELUS, March 2010.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Dimensional Shifts, Landscapes and Cityscapes: Transgression and Movement in Esmeralda Santiago&#8217;s Memoirs,&#8221; SECOLAS, April 2009.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Art of Marketing: Remapping U.S. Latino Presence in Ana Castillo&#8217;s <em>Sapogonia<\/em> ,\u201d Nuesta Am\u00e9rica in the U.S. ? A U.S. Latino\/a Studies Conference, University of Kansas , February 2008.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKnowing Mexico : Presence and Borderlands Identity in Sandra Cisneros&#8217;s <em>Caramelo<\/em> ,\u201d Southwest Texas Popular Culture Association, February 2006.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Education D.Phil. English, Oxford University M.Phil. 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