Margarita Rosa is a Ph. D candidate in Comparative Literature with a concentration in African American Studies. Her dissertation, The Enslaved Womb: The Legislation of Black Maternity and Freedom of the Womb in Brazil, traces the juridical history of the freedom of the womb in Brazil. Her work has been published and featured in Slavery & Abolition, small axe, Teen Vogue, and Pop Sugar. She holds the 2020 Jacobus Fellowship at Princeton University.
Her interests include enslaved women and reproduction, slave rebellions, enslaved women in prisons, and black women writers in the western literary tradition. Margarita Rosa’s historical training is in Latin American History and African American History.
Adviser: Dr. Susana Draper
Committee: Drs. Jennifer Morgan, Tera Hunter, Rachel Price, and Nicole Legnani
Courses:
Co-Professor/preceptor: AAS 220: African American Intellectual History, fall 2018, 2 sections
Professor: ENG 212: World Literature, Garden State Youth Correctional Facility, fall 2017
Professor: ENG 111: English Composition, Garden State Youth Correctional Facility, spring 2017
Preceptor: ENG 227: American Identities, Princeton University, spring 2017, 2 sections
A Selection of Guest Lectures:
“The Bluest Eye: Toni Morrison and Memory as Literary Form”
Course: African American Intellectual History, Princeton U., fall 2018
“What enslaves a so-called slave: the first century of Spanish debates on slavery”
Course: Slavery and Emancipation in Latin America and the Caribbean, Princeton U., fall 2018
“Oscar Wao: Dominican masculinity, womanhood, and Intergenerational violence in Díaz”
Course: Identity in the Hispanic World, Princeton U., fall 2017
“Slave Revolts in the Americas,” Public Lecture, Penn Sapelo, U. of Pennsylvania, spring 2018.
“Slave Revolts and the Prison Industrial Complex,” Center DC, spring 2019
Academic Awards and Fellowships:
2017-2018 Center for African American Studies Dissertation Research Grant, Princeton University
2018, Eleanor Green Fellowship for Studies in American and Latin American Literature, Princeton University
2017, Program in Latin American Studies Graduate Research Grant, Princeton University
2017, Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies Language Grant
2015-2016, President’s Prize, Princeton University
2015, Center for Human Values Award, Princeton University
Archival Visits:
2019, Torre de Tombos, Lisbon, Portugal
2019, Arquivo Histórico Ultramarino, Lisbon, Portugal
2019, Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal, Lisbon, Portugal
2019, Arquivo Publico do Estado de Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2019, Arquivo Nacional, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2018, Archivo General de la Nación, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
2017, 2018, Arquivo Publico do Estado da Bahia, Salvador, Brazil
2016, Biblioteca Nacional de Guatemala, Guatemala City, Guatemala