Marika Preziuso
Professor of World Literature, Humanities
- email mpreziuso@massart.edu
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education
- Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the Caribbean and Diaspora, Birkbeck College, University of London, London, UK
- M.A. in Gender, Society, and Culture, Birkbeck College, University of London, London, UK
- Graduate Certificate in Literary Translation, Università La Sapienza, Rome, Italy
- B.A. First Class Honors in Comparative Literature and Languages (English, French, and German), Università di Salerno, Salerno, Italy
- Diploma in English and American Literature, Univerity of Kent at Canterbury, Canterbury, UK
- pronouns she, lei, ella
Marika Preziuso (she/lei/ella), Ph.D., M.A., is a humanities scholar, educator, and academic leader. She is currently Professor of World Literature in the Humanities Department at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design (MassArt), where she served as the founding Chairperson (2023–2026). Marika’s teaching, scholarship, and leadership center intercultural intelligence and fostering human connections across difference as foundational to equity in education.
Born in Southern Italy, Marika earned an M.A. in Gender, Society, and Culture and a Ph.D. in Caribbean Diaspora Literature from Birkbeck College, University of London. Marika teaches courses on twentieth-century and contemporary postcolonial literature & visual art, particularly by migrant creatives who adopt strategies of resistance that challenge Western imaginaries of otherness and create syncretic, radical spaces for themselves and their art.
At MassArt, Marika founded the Creative Counterpoints series, which brings together artists, writers, and public intellectuals to explore the relationship between creativity and difference.
Marika also served as one of the three Faculty Leaders who launched and led the Learning & Teaching Center (LTC) from 2023 to 2026. She regularly contributes to faculty development through POD (Professional and Organizational Development) and the NEFDC (New England Faculty Development Consortium), and consults with educators on equitable and culturally responsive pedagogy.
Marika’s current research, drawing on scholarship in postcolonial and transnational feminist studies, investigates how faculty development programs designed around intercultural intelligence can foster educators’ connection with themselves and their peers and rekindle the purpose and joy in teaching.
A lifelong journaler and cat lover, Marika has published creative prose in the Journal of Critical Thought and Praxis, Anvil Tongue Books, and other journals. Her scholarly and creative work alike explore migration, cultural (mis)translation and opacity, and other encounters across difference ( for example, human & feline).
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Awards
| MassArt Foundation Fellowship Grant, 2026
Assessing Intercultural Competence through Storytelling and Creative Residency MassArt Curriculum Development Grant 2017 MassArt Foundation Fellowship Grant 2014 Emilia Galla Struppa Fellowship Grant 2011 University of London Research Grant 2003
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Professional Affiliations
Association of General and Liberal Studies (AGLS),
Professional and Organizational Development (POD),
NEFDC (New England Faculty Development Consortium),
Center for Intercultural Dialogue,
American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA),
Caribbean Studies Association (CSA).
